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Meanings of Aaron's rod in English
Portuguese
verbascum thapsus Spanish
verbascum thapsus Tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches.
A succulent perennial plant of the species Hylotelephium telephium with tall flower stems.
Synonyms
Examples for "torch"
Examples for "torch"
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Meanwhile, feelgood stories about the torch's progress thus far continue to surface.
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The good news is that there is always a new torch lit.
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War is the torch of liberty in the hands of the people.
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Mr Donner refused to leave without getting his torch back, he said.
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By all means take a torch, but try not to use it.
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AARON'S ROD, the popular name given to various tall flowering plants ('' hag taper,', ''golden rod,'' &c.).
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The plant has none of the coarse, hairy character of the common mullein.
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Great mulleins have been allowed to spring up from the gaps between the lichen-spotted tiles.
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Tu-Kila-Kila kept the wounded hand wrapped up in a soft leaf, like a woolly mullein.
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Lastly, the Solanaceae: Verbascum thapsus, or shepherd's club; V. sinuatum, or scollop-leaved mullein.
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Verbascum Thapsus is diffused over all the country, is vastly more common here than in Germany, fide Engelmann.
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Verbascum thapsus (Scrophulariaceae).-Highlyself-fertile
Usage of Aaron's rod in English
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He pronounced to be Aaron's rod, which budded and blossomed as the rose.
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It was Aaron's rod, then, and was an almond branch!
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I told you I was like Aaron's rod.
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Here, too, is part of Aaron's rod, and a lock of hair from Elisha the prophet.
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Seldom has the sceptre become an Aaron's rod, and flourished with the buds and blossoms of song.
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He was thinking of Aaron's rod, perhaps.
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Well, Aaron's rod was another dead stick.
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I'll warrant that Aaron's rod bore no bonnier blossoms than these stiff little bushes-andnone more magical.
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For she had now a new anxiety, which, however, like Aaron's rod, had swallowed all the rest.
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And they every one cast down their rods, and they were turned into serpents: but Aaron's rod devoured their rods.
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Like Aaron's rod, it swallowed up one by one all competing thoughts and recollections, and made his brain its slave.
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Like Aaron's rod, the return of Canning had swallowed up all other facts of the girl's existence, or nearly all.
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Don't you remember that Aaron's rod budded and blossomed and bore fruit, and that the miracle kept the rebels from murmuring?
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One Aaron's rod of a bogey had swallowed all the rest, and children buried their sobs in the pillow for fear of Napoleon.
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But a more remarkable writer succeeded, and his work, like Aaron's rod, swallowed up all the productions of these clever but petty poets.
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As this power of amendment threatens to be the Aaron's rod which will swallow up the rest, I propose to give it special examination.