ROSE MALLOW

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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:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("rose mallow" 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 ("rose mallow" 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:

Showy shrub of salt marshes of the eastern United States having large rose-colored flowers

Synonyms:

common rose mallow; Hibiscus moscheutos; rose mallow; swamp mallow; swamp rose mallow