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Aaron's rod   Listen
noun
Aaron's rod  n.  
1.
(Arch.) A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.
2.
(Bot.) A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod.





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"Aaron's rod" Quotes from Famous Books



... was different from these people, but I had never known anything beside this life, except books. Of course you can understand how much else than love the man brought me. I was quite beautiful then. Does it not seem strange that it could have been true! I burst into real blossom for him—like Aaron's rod, was it not? And now you see, I am ...
— A Village Ophelia and Other Stories • Anne Reeve Aldrich


Words linked to "Aaron's rod" :   flannel mullein, woolly mullein, torch, flannel leaf, mullein


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