Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tall plant (Alcea rosea syn. Althaea rosea) in the mallow family, native to the Middle East and widely cultivated for its showy clusters of very large, variously colored flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant, Althea rosea, of the natural order Malvaceæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A species of Althæa (
Althæa rosea ), bearing flowers of various colors; -- called alsorose mallow .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
flowering plants of thegenus Alcea in theMalvaceae family .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
- noun any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mrs. Countryman: I am told on good authority that the hollyhock is a true perennial and not a biennial.
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One could be annoyed with a policeman, but not with a tin hollyhock.
Mrs. Miniver 1939
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An interesting aspect of Leroi-Gourhan's discovery was the number of medicinal plants, such as hollyhock, ephedra, horsetail and yarrow, indicating that Neanderthals might have understood herbal remedies as well as appreciating the beauty of flowers.
Say it with your own arrangement - or cutting garden - of flowers Joel M. Lerner 2011
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Aoi is Japanese for "hollyhock,", and it is on the five-generation family crest of the owners, the Honda family.
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The darkness that was prominent in "Oranges no. 5" seems to recede, and what appears to be the hollyhock -- the "favorite flower" mentioned in the poem -- is the focal point.
Daniel J. Kushner: "Text Painting": Grace Hartigan and Frank O'Hara at Tibor de Nagy Gallery Daniel J. Kushner 2011
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Why does this Provençale hollyhock remind me of Hawaii?
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The darkness that was prominent in "Oranges no. 5" seems to recede, and what appears to be the hollyhock -- the "favorite flower" mentioned in the poem -- is the focal point.
Daniel J. Kushner: "Text Painting": Grace Hartigan and Frank O'Hara at Tibor de Nagy Gallery Daniel J. Kushner 2011
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Why does this Provençale hollyhock remind me of Hawaii?
French Word-A-Day: 2010
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The darkness that was prominent in "Oranges no. 5" seems to recede, and what appears to be the hollyhock -- the "favorite flower" mentioned in the poem -- is the focal point.
Daniel J. Kushner: "Text Painting": Grace Hartigan and Frank O'Hara at Tibor de Nagy Gallery Daniel J. Kushner 2011
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The darkness that was prominent in "Oranges no. 5" seems to recede, and what appears to be the hollyhock -- the "favorite flower" mentioned in the poem -- is the focal point.
Daniel J. Kushner: "Text Painting": Grace Hartigan and Frank O'Hara at Tibor de Nagy Gallery Daniel J. Kushner 2011
bilby commented on the word hollyhock
All the names I know from nurse:
Gardener's garters, shepherd's purse:
Bachelor's buttons, lady's smock,
And the lady hollyhock.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, 'The Flowers'.
November 12, 2008