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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers [syn: mullein, flannel leaf, velvet plant]

Merriam Webster's

also mullen noun Etymology: Middle English moleyne, from Anglo-French moleine Date: 14th century any of a genus (Verbascum) of usually woolly-leaved Eurasian herbs of the snapdragon family including some that are naturalized in North America

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. any herbaceous plant of the genus Verbascum, with woolly leaves and yellow flowers. Etymology: ME f. OF moleine f. Gaulish

Webster's 1913 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.