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ALTHEA ROSEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plant with terminal racemes of showy white to pink or purple flowers; the English cottage garden hollyhock
Synonyms:
Alcea rosea; Althea rosea; rose mallow
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Althea rosea" is a kind of...):
hollyhock (any of various tall plants of the genus Alcea; native to the Middle East but widely naturalized and cultivated for its very large variously colored flowers)
Holonyms ("Althea rosea" is a member of...):
Alcea; genus Alcea (genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers: hollyhocks; in some classification systems synonymous with genus Althaea)
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