flannel leaf

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsmulleinvelvet plant

   Broaderherb

   Narrowermoth mulleinwhite mulleinpurple mulleincommon mullein

   Part ofVerbascum

Questions about flannel leaf

What does flannel leaf mean?

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

What is another word for flannel leaf?

Close synonyms include mullein, velvet plant. 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 flannel leaf a common word?

flannel leaf 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.