Mul·lein n.  Bot. Any plant of the genus Verbascum.  They are tall herbs having coarse leaves, and large flowers in dense spikes.  The common species, with densely woolly leaves, is Verbascum Thapsus.
 Moth mullein. See under Moth.
 Mullein foxglove, an American herb (Seymeria macrophylla) with coarse leaves and yellow tubular flowers with a spreading border.
 Petty mullein, the cowslip. --Dr. Prior.

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 Ad·am n.
 1. The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.
 2. As a symbol “Original sin;” human frailty.
    And whipped the offending Adam out of him.   --Shak.
 Adam's ale, water. [Coll.]
 Adam's apple.
 1. Bot. (a) A species of banana (Musa paradisiaca). It attains a height of twenty feet or more. --Paxton. (b) A species of lime (Citris limetta). 2. The projection formed by the thyroid cartilage in the neck. It is particularly prominent in males, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent.
 Adam's flannel Bot., the mullein (Verbascum thapsus).
 Adam's needle Bot., the popular name of a genus (Yucca) of liliaceous plants.

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 Hag-ta·per n.  Bot. The great woolly mullein (Verbascum Thapsus).

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 Hig-ta·per n.  Bot. A plant of the genus Verbascum (Verbascum Thapsus); the common mullein. [Also high-taper and hag-taper.]

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 Verbascum thapsus
      n : 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]