mullein
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mullein
- /ˈmʌlɪn/
Rhymes with -ʌlɪn
Where it comes from
From Middle English moleyne, from Anglo-Norman moleine, which is either a Celtic borrowing and derived from Proto-Celtic *melinos (“yellow”) from *meli (“honey”) – an adjective found in Breton melen (“yellow”) and Welsh melyn (“yellow”) – or from mol (“soft”), from Latin mollis (“soft”), referencing the plant's fluffy, downy leaves, also apparent in synonyms such as feltwort, flannel leaf, and velvet plant.
noun mulleins · mullen
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Any of a few hundred species of European and Asian plants, of the genus Verbascum, especially that majority that have yellow flowers.
There be foure ſortes of Mulleyne, as [Pedanius] Dioſcorides writeth: wherof yͤ two firſt are white Mulleyne, and of them one is Male, and the other female: The third is blacke Mulleyne: The fourth is wilde Mulleyne. […] The white male Mulleyn (or rather Wolleyn) hath […] the whole top with his plea
Similar: Aaron's rod, cow's lungwort, feltwort, flannel leaf, velvet plant
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noun plants of the genus Verbascum
| Español | verbasco |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 毛蕊花 mōzuika |
| 中文 | 毛蕊花 máoruǐhuā |
| Português | verbasco |
| Français | molène |
| Deutsch | Königskerze |
| Italiano | verbasco |
| Ελληνικά | φλόμος flómos, βερμπάσκο vermpásko |
| Română | lumânărică, coada-mielului |
| Русский | коровя́к korovják, медве́жье у́хо medvéžʹje úxo |
| العربية | بُوصِير būṣīr |
| עברית | בּוּצִין būṣīn |
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title = {mullein},
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