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MOTH MULLEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moth mullein mean? 

MOTH MULLEIN (noun)
  The noun MOTH MULLEIN has 1 sense:

1. European mullein with smooth leaves and large yellow or purplish flowers; naturalized as a weed in North Americaplay

  Familiarity information: MOTH MULLEIN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MOTH MULLEIN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

European mullein with smooth leaves and large yellow or purplish flowers; naturalized as a weed in North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

moth mullein; Verbascum blattaria

Hypernyms ("moth mullein" is a kind of...):

flannel leaf; mullein; velvet plant (any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers)


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