Aaron's rod

Aaron's rod

n.1. A rod-shaped architectural molding decorated with a design of leaves, scrolls, or a twined serpent.2. Any of various plants with a tall flowering stalk.

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[After the blossoming rod of Aaron in Numbers 17:8.]

Aaron's rod

n 1. (Bible) the rod used by Aaron in performing a variety of miracles in Egypt. It later blossomed and produced almonds (Numbers 17) 2. (Plants) a widespread Eurasian scrophulariaceous plant, Verbascum thapsus, having woolly leaves and tall erect spikes of yellow flowers

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Aaron's rod - tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torchescommon mullein, flannel mullein, great mullein, Verbascum thapsus, woolly mullein, torchflannel leaf, mullein, velvet plant - any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers