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mullen

mullen is the alternative form of mullein.

Meaning of mullein

Noun

mullein (usually uncountable, plural mulleins)

  1. (usually) Any of a few hundred species of European and Asian plants, of the genus Verbascum, especially that majority that have yellow flowers.
    • There be foure ſortes of Mulleyne, as [Pedanius] Dioſcorides writeth: wherof yͤ two firſt are white Mulleyne, and of them one is Male, and the other female: The third is blacke Mulleyne: The fourth is wilde Mulleyne. […] The white male Mulleyn (or rather Wolleyn) hath […] the whole top with his...1578, Rembert Dodoens, “Of Mulleyne⸝ or Hyg[h]taper”, in Henry Lyte, transl., A Niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes: […], London: […] [Henry [i.e., Hendrik van der] Loë for] Gerard Dewes, […]...
    Synonyms:
    Aaron's rod, cow's lungwort, feltwort, flannel leaf, velvet plant

Proper noun capitalized: Mullen

Mullen

  1. A surname.
  2. A ghost town in Yolo County, California.
  3. A village, the county seat of Hooker County, Nebraska.
  4. A township in Boyd County, Nebraska.

Forms of mullen

pluralmullens

Words formed from mullen

Phrases with mullen

Questions about mullen

What does mullen mean?
Mullen means a surname.
What is mullen the alternative form of?
Mullen is the alternative form of mullein.
What part of speech is mullen?
Mullen is a proper noun.

Words near mullen in the dictionary

  1. mulled over
  2. mulled wine
  3. mulled wines
  4. mullein
  5. mulleins
  6. mullen
  7. Mullen test
  8. Mullen tests
  9. Mullendore
  10. Mullendores
  11. Mullengandra

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mullen (page history and authors); Mullen (page history and authors); mullein (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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