noun
- Tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches.
- synonyms: great mullein, Aaron's rod, flannel mullein, woolly mullein, torch, Verbascum thapsus
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