Malva

n. type of plant; a traditional dessert, consisting of a baked pudding over which a syrup or sauce is poured as it is removed from the oven

Malva was also an ancient Roman city in present Romania. It is also an alternative spelling for the Indian region and state Malwa, and the pseudonym of Syrian artist Omar Hamdi. Malva is a genus of about 25–30 species of herbaceous annual, biennial, and perennial plants in the family Malvaceae (of which it is the type genus), one of several closely related genera in the family to bear the common English name mallow. The genus is widespread throughout the temperate, subtropical and tropical regions of Africa, Asia and Europe.
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Noun
1. herbs and subshrubs: mallows
(synonym) genus Malva
(hypernym) dilleniid dicot genus
(member-holonym) Malvaceae, family Malvaceae, mallow family
(member-meronym) musk mallow, mus rose, Malva moschata

n. mallow, any of a number of plants belonging to the genus Malva having hairy stems and pink or white flowers; mauve, pale bluish-purple color; purple dye made from aniline

adj. mauve, pale bluish-purple, purple

n. mallow, any of a number of plants belonging to the genus Malva having hairy stems and pink or white flowers; mauve, pale bluish-purple color