Aaron’s rod: Definition and part of speech

Aaron’s rod

  1. A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod.
  2. A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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