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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:

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"):

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:

althaea; althea; hollyhock

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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