aaron's rod

What does aaron's rod mean?

aaron's rod means "tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches".

What is another word for aaron's rod?

Close synonyms include common mullein, great mullein, flannel mullein, woolly mullein, torch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aaron's rod a common word?

aaron's rod is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aaron's rod come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.