Althaea

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Althaea \Al*th[ae]"a\, Althea \Al*the"a\, n. [althaea, Gr. ?.]
     (Bot.)
     (a) A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the
         officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.
     (b) An ornamental shrub ({Hibiscus Syriacus}) of the Mallow
         family.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  althaea
       n : any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but
           having smaller flowers than genus Alcea [syn: {althea}, {hollyhock}]