Mallow

Definitions

1. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
2. Any of a group of flowering plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially of the genus Malva. Several species are edible by humans.
   countable, uncountable
3. A town in County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 5598).
   countable, uncountable
4. Larentia clavaria, an uncommon moth found across Eurasia.
   countable, uncountable
5. A locality in the County of Newell, Alberta, Canada.
   countable, uncountable
6. An unincorporated community in Alleghany County, Virginia, United States.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

32 more languages

العربيةالخبازيخبازةخبازىطولق+ 1 more

Azərbaycan diliəməköməci

Българскислез

Bosanskisljez

Catalàmalva

ČeštinaslézSlez

Cymraeghocysmalw

Ελληνικάμολόχα

Esperantomalvo

فارسیپنیرکورتاج

Suomimalva

Galegomalva

עבריתחלמית

Hrvatskisljez

Հայերենփիփերթ

Italianomalva

日本語かたみぐさ葵

ქართულიბალბა

Қазақ тіліқұлқайыр

한국어蚍동규자

Kurdîserek

Latinamalopemalva

Nederlandskaasjeskruid

Polskimalwamalwowyserekślaz+ 1 more

Portuguêsmalva

Românănalbă

Русскиймальва

Slovenščinaslezenovec

Shqipmëllagë

Српскиsljez

Svenskamalva

Türkçeebegümeci

Examples

“Gonzalo. Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,— Antonio. He’ld sow’t with nettle-seed. Sebastian. Or docks, or mallows.”

“For want⟳ and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste⟳. Who cut⟳ up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.”

“Not Heathpout, or the rarer Bird, / Which Phasis, or Ionia yields, / More pleasing Morsels would afford⟳ / Than the fat Olives of my Fields; / Than Shards or Mallows for the Pot, / That keep⟳ the loosen’d Body sound⟳, / Or than the Lamb that falls by Lot, / To the just Guardian of my Ground.”

“1840, Robert Browning, Sordello, Book IV, in Sordello; Strafford; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1863, p. 112, The thoroughfares were overrun with weed — Docks, quitchgrass, loathly mallows no man plants.”

“The Time Traveller paused, put⟳ his hand into his pocket, and silently placed two withered flowers, not unlike very large white mallows, upon the little table. Then he resumed his narrative.”

“'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light⟳ green streaks where the shoal showed.”

“The root of the mallow in goat's milk excites the sexual urge⟳, according to Pliny the Elder, the Roman encyclopedist of the first century A.D.”

“Hallo Hallo, brain of tallow, / Guts are gone, noggin’s hollow. / Seeking sweets and marshing mallows, / Watch⟳ your back, and your candy sack.”

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