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HOLLYHOCK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hollyhock" is a kind of...):
mallow (any of various plants of the family Malvaceae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hollyhock"):
Alcea rosea; Althea rosea; rose mallow (plant with terminal racemes of showy white to pink or purple flowers; the English cottage garden hollyhock)
Holonyms ("hollyhock" 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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("hollyhock" is a kind of...):
mallow (any of various plants of the family Malvaceae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hollyhock"):
Althea officinalis; marsh mallow; white mallow (European perennial plant naturalized in United States having triangular ovate leaves and lilac-pink flowers)
Holonyms ("hollyhock" is a member of...):
genus Althaea (hollyhocks; in some classification systems synonymous with genus Alcea)
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