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.
Synonyms
Examples for "blowtorch"
Examples for "blowtorch"
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She must have discovered a shop where they'd eliminated the blowtorch demonstration.
2
They were still beautiful, still fragile, but they had defied the blowtorch.
3
It doesn't so much break the ice as blowtorch clean through it.
4
I had a sinking feeling, visualized a moth flapping toward a blowtorch.
5
Alternatively, run a blowtorch over the meringue until it is nicely caramelized.
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His ears burned like someone was holding a blowlamp on them.
2
Perhaps the biggest obstacle remains the "blowlamp" of nationalist Chinese opinion itself.
3
He had read a book set above the Arctic Circle where you had to thaw the engine block with blowlamps.
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Meanwhile, feelgood stories about the torch's progress thus far continue to surface.
2
The good news is that there is always a new torch lit.
3
War is the torch of liberty in the hands of the people.
4
Mr Donner refused to leave without getting his torch back, he said.
5
By all means take a torch, but try not to use it.
6
STRAFOREL rises in front of SYLVETTE, and torch-bearers appear in the background.
7
There he saw his carefully hoarded reading matter set to the torch.
8
Jerry was drenched in sweat and the torch trembled in his hand.
9
Someone had brought in a cutting torch and done the job right.
10
There remained in the square only Ivan Ogareff and the torch bearers.
11
The torch had been blown out in the hand of his guide.
12
He looked like a giant in the wavering light of the torch.
13
From donations to spreading awareness, every person can help carry this torch.
14
Apparently, fear of illness had caused the Celts to torch the building.
15
The torch now put to the dried wood is in his hand.
16
Here in the open there was no chance to use the torch.
