The Collaborative International Dictionary
hag-taper
Hig-taper \Hig"-ta`per\, n. [Cf. Hag-taper.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Verbascum ( Verbascum Thapsus); the common mullein. [Also high-taper and hag-taper.]
Wiktionary
hag-taper
n. (context botany English) The great woolly mullein (''Verbascum thapsus'')