Crossword clues for mullein
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mullein \Mul"lein\, n. [OE. moleyn, AS. molegn.] (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Verbascum. They are tall herbs having coarse leaves, and large flowers in dense spikes. The common species, with densely woolly leaves, is Verbascum Thapsus.
Moth mullein. See under Moth.
Mullein foxglove, an American herb ( Seymeria macrophylla) with coarse leaves and yellow tubular flowers with a spreading border.
Petty mullein, the cowslip.
--Dr. Prior.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tall plant of the figwort family, mid-15c., from Anglo-French moleine (French moulaine), perhaps literally "the soft-leaved plant," from French mol "soft," from Latin mollis (see melt (v.))
Wiktionary
n. Any of several European and Asian plants, of the genus ''Verbascum'', that have yellow flowers and downy leaves; the (vern: velvet plant).
WordNet
n. any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers [syn: flannel leaf, velvet plant]
Usage examples of "mullein".
I continued my grisly task, wishing for some betony, willow bark, and mullein.
Sister Hyacinthe ecstatically-and when they encountered fiddlehead ferns and stalks of mullein her gasps grew more pronounced and her steps slower.
They afterwards cured these sores by applying fresh mullein leaves to heal them.
A field of wildflowers, tidy-tips and mullein and tickseed and bindweed, sloped steeply down to the edge of the mesa.
Admiral Lalwani and Mullein, the captain of the voidhawk Tsuga, both saluted.
In many the flowers, blades, or staminous shootes and leaves are all equally five, as in cockle, mullein and Blattaria.
Mullein oil is recommended for earache and discharge from the ear, and for any eczema of the external ear and its canal.
By these 'decurrent' leaves (as this hugging of the stem by the leaves is botanically termed) the Great Mullein is easily distinguished from other British species of Mullein - some with white and some with yellow flowers.
Or do you think Ive forgotten where we keep mullein, and sweet cicely, and rue, and rosemary, and hedge mustard?
On tables and benches and sturdy metal racks stand hundreds of terra-cotta pots and plastic trays in which she cultivates tarragon and thyme, angelica and arrowroot, chervil and cardamom and coriander and chicory, spearmint and sweet cicely, ginseng, hyssop, balm and basil, marjoram and mint and mullein, dill, fennel, rosemary, chamomile, tansy.
Among its British representatives it embraces members so diverse as the Foxglove and Speedwell, the Mullein and Figworts, the Toadflax and the semi-parasites, Eyebright, Bartsia, Cowwheat, and the Red and Yellow Rattles.