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  • noun Plural form of mullen.

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Examples

  • The flower beds were choaked with the low running bramble and tangling five-finger; tall, rank rushes, mullens and daisies, had usurped the empire of the kitchen garden.

    Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson

  • Out near the well curb, toward the green maple on the right, plays our loved little Clinton, the plump and laughing idol of the place; tossing his ball out of sight into that cluster of golden mullens, and then scampering full tilt after the broods of young chickens and turkeys that peep about the door.

    Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee

  • A small switch was in one hand, and she flipped it at the new leaves of the aspens and the broad-leafed mullens beside the road.

    The White Desert Courtney Ryley Cooper 1913

  • They linked themselves with the grave shade of the clustered gray columns, and the angel heads on roof of that old church; with the long grass and tall yellow mullens among its churchyard graves, and with the tints of the elm-trees that closed it in, their leaves in masses either of green or yellow, and opening here and there to show the purple hills beyond.

    The Heir of Redclyffe Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • Black spikes and seed-heads of dead golden rods and mullens dotted the way.

    Margaret 1851

  • We assert, without fear of successful contradiction, that there is not a farm -- not a field -- covered with five-finger vines and mullens, in the State of Massachusetts, which may not be made to produce as profitable crops, by the use of guano, as any Connecticut river farm.

    Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers Solon Robinson 1841

  • i doubt the average basketball fans has even heard of mullens.

    The Big Lead 2009

  • A Q&A With Jason Whitlock Top 2 NFC > Top 2 AFC/needed to be corrected NFC sucks (so does most of AFC, ... maybe they finaly got eind of this "report" that he's 25 years old bj mullens was ... he roots for the Sawx I remember that ha.

    The Big Lead 2009

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