mullein

Other forms of mullein

plural

mulleins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mullein

What does mullein mean?

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

How many syllables are in mullein?

mullein has 2 syllables: mul-lein. The stress falls on "mul".

What is another word for mullein?

Close synonyms include flannel leaf, 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 mullein a common word?

mullein 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.