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What does mullein mean?

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Noun
  1. Any of several European and Asian plants, of the genus Verbascum, that have yellow flowers and downy leaves; the velvet plant.
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Canterbury bells, Echium, foxglove, sweet William, Queen Anne's lace and mullein are among the commonly grown ornamental biennials.
They'd go to drugging themselves with boneset tea, and mullein tea, and bitter-root powders and wahoo bark, said Gray.
To treat a cough, make a calming tea from equal parts of licorice root, anise seed, mullein leaves and wild cherry bark.
The wooly covering of common mullein, for example, is made up of innumerable slender-branched hairs.
In Pacific Northwest fruit growing regions, common mullein often is abundant on the perimeter of pome and stonefruit orchards.
Its nest is very small, and is elegantly lined with the down of the mullein.

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