hollyhock

n. tall flowering plant of the mallow family

This article is about the flower. For the J. League team, see Mito Hollyhock The hollyhocks comprise about 60 species of flowering plants in the genus Alcea (Ál-ce-a) in the mallow family Malvaceae, native to southwest and central Asia. They are biennial or short-lived perennial plants growing to 3.5 m tall, with broad, rounded, palmately lobed leaves and numerous flowers, pink or yellow in the wild species, on the erect central stem.
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Noun
1. any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea
(synonym) althea, althaea
(hypernym) mallow
(hyponym) marsh mallow, white mallow, Althea officinalis
(member-holonym) genus Althaea
2. 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
(hypernym) mallow
(hyponym) rose mallow, Alcea rosea, Althea rosea
(member-holonym) Alcea, genus Alcea

(n.)
A species of Althaea (A. rosea), bearing flowers of various colors; -- called also rose mallow.
  

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