1) Althaea 2) Althea 3) Buddy s tarsal joint 4) Exclusively Saxon word 5) Exclusively Anglo word 6) Girl to pawn flower 7) Mallow 8) Tall flower 9) Tall flowering plant 10) Word of purely Anglo origin 11) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
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1) Althaea 2) Althea
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• (n.) A species of Althaea (A. rosea), bearing flowers of various colors; -- called also rose mallow.
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(Althaea rosea), herbaceous plant of the hibiscus, or mallow, family (Malvaceae), native to China but widely cultivated for its handsome flowers. The ...
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(Alcea) This group consists of about sixty, tall, herbaceous plants commonly known as Hollyhock. These beautiful plants range in height from 6 to 10 feet. Their large, rough leaves have five to seven lobes. In the summer and early fall, long, upright spikes of large, single or double flowers that may be white, pink, rose, red, crimson, purple, yell...
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Hol'ly·hock noun [ Middle English
holihoc ;
holi holy + hoc mallow, Anglo-Saxon
hoc ; confer W.
hocys mallows,
hocys bendigaid hollyhock, lit., blessed mallow. Prob. so named because brought from the Holy Land. See
Holy .]
(Botany) A species of Althæ...
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Hollyhock is a biennial or perennial herb with tall, erect, leafy stems. It is native to central Europe and China. There are many varieties, with single and double flowers, characterized by the tints of yellow, red, purple, and dark purple approaching to black. It reaches a height of rwo meters or more. Hollyhock is an important plant in medicine p...
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[
n] - any of various tall plants of the genus Alcea
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Tall flowering plant belonging to the mallow family.
A. rosea, originally a native of Asia, produces spikes of large white, yellow, pink, or red flowers, 3 m/10 ft high when cultivated as a biennial; it is a popular cottage garden plant. (Genus
Althaea, family Malvaceae.)
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any of several plants belonging to the genus Alcea (or Althaea), of the mallow family, native to Eurasia, esp. A. rosea, a tall plant having a long cluster of showy, variously colored flowers.
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