woolly mullein

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woolly mullein - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  woolly mullein
      n 1: tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow
           flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in
           tallow for funeral torches [syn: common mullein, great mullein
           , Aaron's rod, flannel mullein, woolly mullein
           , torch, Verbascum thapsus]