VELVET PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does velvet plant mean? 

• VELVET PLANT (noun)
  The noun VELVET PLANT has 2 senses:

1. any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers

2. Javanese foliage plant grown for their handsome velvety leaves with violet-purple hairs

  Familiarity information: VELVET PLANT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VELVET PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

flannel leaf; mullein; velvet plant

Hypernyms ("velvet plant" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "velvet plant"):

moth mullein; Verbascum blattaria (European mullein with smooth leaves and large yellow or purplish flowers; naturalized as a weed in North America)

Verbascum lychnitis; white mullein (densely hairy Eurasian herb with racemose white flowers; naturalized in North America)

purple mullein; Verbascum phoeniceum (Eurasian mullein with showy purple or pink flowers)

Aaron's rod; common mullein; flannel mullein; great mullein; torch; Verbascum thapsus; woolly mullein (tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches)

Holonyms ("velvet plant" is a member of...):

genus Verbascum; Verbascum (genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs mostly with woolly leaves)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Javanese foliage plant grown for their handsome velvety leaves with violet-purple hairs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Gynura aurantiaca; purple velvet plant; royal velvet plant; velvet plant

Hypernyms ("velvet plant" is a kind of...):

houseplant (any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes)

Holonyms ("velvet plant" is a member of...):

genus Gynura; Gynura (genus of Old World tropical herbs: velvet plants)