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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HIG-TAPER

Hig "-ta `per, n. Etym: [Cf. Hag-taper. ] (Bot. )

 

Defn: A plant of the genus Verbascum (V. Thapsus ); the common mullein. [Also high-taper and hag-taper. ]