Aaron's rod : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Aaron's rod	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Aaron's rod
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Aaron's rod n tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches Synonym(s): common mullein, great mullein, Aaron's rod, flannel mullein, woolly mullein, torch, Verbascum thapsus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Aaron's rod \Aar"on's rod`\ ([acir]r"[ucr]nz r[ocr]d`). [See Exodus vii. 9 and Numbers xvii. 8] 1. (Arch.) A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two. 2. (Bot.) A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod.