verbascum
noun
verbascum is a noun meaning “A mullein (of genus Verbascum)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-R-B-A-S-C-U-M, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of verbascum is verbascums or verbasca.
What does verbascum mean?
noun
- 1
A mullein (of genus Verbascum)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of verbascum
- verbascums plural
- verbasca plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is verbascum?
Verbascum appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does verbascum come from?
Borrowed from translingual Verbascum, from Latin verbascum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).