Meaning of Mullein | Babel Free
ˈmʌlɪnDefinitions
Any of a few hundred species of European and Asian plants, of the genus Verbascum, especially that majority that have yellow flowers.
Equivalents
Български
лопен
Čeština
divizna
Cymraeg
pannog
Deutsch
Königskerze
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
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
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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