noun
1. any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers
• Syn: ↑mullein, ↑flannel leaf
• Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant
• Hyponyms:
↑moth mullein, ↑Verbascum blattaria, ↑white mullein, ↑Verbascum lychnitis, ↑purple mullein, ↑Verbascum phoeniceum, ↑common mullein, ↑great mullein, ↑Aaron's rod, ↑flannel mullein, ↑woolly mullein, ↑torch, ↑Verbascum thapsus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Verbascum, ↑genus Verbascum
2. Javanese foliage plant grown for their handsome velvety leaves with violet-purple hairs
• Syn: ↑purple velvet plant, ↑royal velvet plant, ↑Gynura aurantiaca
• Hypernyms: ↑houseplant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gynura, ↑genus Gynura
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noun1. : great mullein
2. also velvet tree : a Javanese foliage plant (Gynura aurantiaca) with handsome velvety leaves with violet-purple hairs
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1. a composite plant, Gynura aurantiaca, native to the Old World tropics, having leaves and stems covered with dense, velvety, purple hairs and often cultivated as a houseplant. Cf. purple passion.
2. the common mullein, Verbascum thapsus.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.