Definitions for mullein

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mullein mul·lein

Spelling: [muhl-uh n]

IPA: /ˈmʌl ən/

Mullein is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in mullein (eillmnu).

Definitions for mullein

noun

1. any of various plants belonging to the genus Verbascum, of the figwort family, native to the Old World, especially V. thapsus, a tall plant with woolly leaves and a dense spike of yellow flowers.
2. any of several similar plants.

Origin of mullein

1325-75; Middle English moleine Anglo-French, perhaps derivative of mol soft Latin mollis

Examples for mullein

This is cuineul-Muire (mullein), the blessed candle of our Lady.

They were all new-comers this summer, even the mullein, arrogant and tall as it was.

mullein and nettle, henbane and wormwood, all are English emigrants.

If I just had some mullein leaves now to make compresses with!

Here about mullein Hill, this is sure to be a gray-birch home.

There is a mullein, too, which is well worth a corner in any garden.

They are also to be found in quantities on the mullein, when that plant is in flower.

Its nest is very small, and is elegantly lined with the down of the mullein.

These great flannel leaves of the mullein are caressing and soft to the touch.

He left the male fern and mullein until the last for different reasons.