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Definition of Mullein

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

Definition of Mullein

1. n. 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.

Definition of Mullein

1. Noun. Any of several European and Asian plants, of the genus ''Verbascum'', that have yellow flowers and downy leaves; the velvet plant ¹

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Definition of Mullein

1. a Eurasian herb [n -S]

Medical Definition of Mullein

1. 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 Moth. Mullein foxglove, an American herb (Seymeria macrophylla) with coarse leaves and yellow tubular flowers with a spreading border. Petty mullein, the cowslip. Origin: OE. Moleyn, AS. Molegn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Mullein

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"mullein with a dark Moth- mullein-leaf, and yellow Flowers with ... JB Branching narrow-leav'd mullein, with a golden Flower, and a thicker Leaf. 9. ..."

2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1864)
"The properties of the mullein, according to Lindley, are poisonous in the seeds and flowers; the foliage is acrid and bitterish. ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"Mullet (which see) was another form of the name. mullein, Black. ... Apparently a form of mullein. Ger. says the leaves of Inula ..."

4. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"mullein Teacher's Story "I like the plants that you call weeds,— Sedge, ... mullein is one of them, and after we study its many ways of "winning out" then ..."

5. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"FIGWORT FAMILY (Scrophulariaceae) Great mullein; Velvet or Flannel Plant; ... "I have come three thousand miles to see the mullein cultivated in a garden, ..."

6. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1884)
"This, however, can be completely relieved by allowing the boiled mullein milk to cool down ... Phthisical diarrhoea is completely obviated by the mullein. ..."

7. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"About eighty -species of mullein are known, most of them natives of the regions about the Mediterranean. MILLER, John. ..."

8. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"mullein with a dark Moth- mullein-leaf, and yellow Flowers with ... JB Branching narrow-leav'd mullein, with a golden Flower, and a thicker Leaf. 9. ..."

9. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1864)
"The properties of the mullein, according to Lindley, are poisonous in the seeds and flowers; the foliage is acrid and bitterish. ..."

10. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"Mullet (which see) was another form of the name. mullein, Black. ... Apparently a form of mullein. Ger. says the leaves of Inula ..."

11. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"mullein Teacher's Story "I like the plants that you call weeds,— Sedge, ... mullein is one of them, and after we study its many ways of "winning out" then ..."

12. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"FIGWORT FAMILY (Scrophulariaceae) Great mullein; Velvet or Flannel Plant; ... "I have come three thousand miles to see the mullein cultivated in a garden, ..."

13. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1884)
"This, however, can be completely relieved by allowing the boiled mullein milk to cool down ... Phthisical diarrhoea is completely obviated by the mullein. ..."

14. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"About eighty -species of mullein are known, most of them natives of the regions about the Mediterranean. MILLER, John. ..."

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