Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun common_mullein

1 sense of common mullein

Sense 1
common mullein, great mullein, Aaron's rod, flannel mullein, woolly mullein, torch, Verbascum thapsus -- (tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches)
       => mullein, flannel leaf, 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)