mullein pink
- noun
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rosa de mullein
- Many gardeners cherish the mullein pink for its enduring summer flowers and silvery leaves.
Examples
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The mullein pink brightened the cottage garden with its vivid crimson blooms.
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She decided to plant a row of mullein pink along the fence for their striking foliage.
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The mullein pink blooms beautifully in spring.
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I planted a mullein pink in my garden last year.
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Many gardeners cherish the mullein pink for its enduring summer flowers and silvery leaves.
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The mullein pink brightened the cottage garden with its vivid crimson blooms.
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She decided to plant a row of mullein pink along the fence for their striking foliage.
Synonyms
A garden plant called rose campion with bright crimson flowers and soft silver leaves
A plant that lives for many years with silvery fuzzy leaves and bright red flowers
A cottage garden plant with white woolly leaves and bright red flowers grown for decoration
How Ornamental
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Morphology
The compound is partially compositional: a learner who knows 'mullein' (a woolly-leaved plant) and 'pink' (a type of flowering plant) can infer this refers to a kind of flower that combines or relates to those plants. However, the precise botanical features (white woolly leaves, vibrant crimson flowers) and the specific taxonomic/origin details are not fully predictable from the constituents alone, so the meaning is only partly transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Mullein pink probably comes from the two words mullein and pink. mullein refers to the plant's 'soft, woolly leaves' and pink was an old word for a 'small bright flower'. So the name describes a fuzzy-leaved plant with bright pink or red blooms, which is why it is used for the garden plant with silvery leaves and crimson flowers.