musk plant

noun

a sticky-hairy plant, Mimulus moschata, of the figwort family, native to northern and western North America, having pale-yellow flowers and a musky odor.

First recorded in 1775–85

A bed of musk-plant yielded up languorous sighs to the warmed air.

Her mistress stood putting a little water on a musk plant in the window.

It comes again, just a whiff as if the light green musk-plant were growing somewhere on a dank bank.

But ravines are not dank in the clear fall days; and by October the musk-plant has wilted dry.

M. moschatus, Dougl., the common musk-plant of cultivation, is usually found along mountain-streams.

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