Mullein

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

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.”

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