woolly mullein

What does woolly mullein mean?

woolly mullein 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 woolly mullein?

Close synonyms include common mullein, great mullein, Aaron's rod, flannel 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 woolly mullein a common word?

woolly 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.

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