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Meaning of Mullein | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈmʌlɪn

Definitions

Any of a few hundred species of European and Asian plants, of the genus Verbascum, especially that majority that have yellow flowers.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Български лопен
Čeština divizna
Cymraeg pannog
Deutsch Königskerze
Ελληνικά βερμπάσκο φλόμος
Español verbasco
Suomi tulikukka
Français molène
Italiano verbasco
日本語 毛蕊花
Latina verbascum
Македонски дивизма
Nederlands koningskaars
Polski dziewanna
Português verbasco
Română lumânărică
Slovenčina divozel
Shqip lëpushë
Српски divizma дивизма
Türkçe sığırkuyruğu
Українська дивина

Examples

“There be foure ſortes of Mulleyne, as [Pedanius] Dioſcorides writeth: wherof yͤ two firſt are white Mulleyne, and of them one is Male, and the other female: The third is blacke Mulleyne: The fourth is wilde Mulleyne. […] The white male Mulleyn (or rather Wolleyn) hath […] the whole top with his pleaſant yellow floures ſheweth like to a waxe Candell or taper cunningly wrought.”
“As we all know, witches ride through the air on a broom, but sometimes their means of locomotion was a bulrush, a branch of thorn, mullein stalks, cornstalk, or ragweed, called fairies' horse in Ireland.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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