mullein

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Any of various Eurasian plants of the genus Verbascum of the figwort family, especially V. thapsus, naturalized in North America, having a tall spike of yellow flowers and leaves covered with dense woolly down.

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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.

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See under Moth.

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an American herb (Seymeria macrophylla) with coarse leaves and yellow tubular flowers with a spreading border.

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the cowslip.

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

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