ALCEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Alcea mean? 

• ALCEA (noun)
  The noun ALCEA has 1 sense:

1. genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers: hollyhocks; in some classification systems synonymous with genus Althaea

  Familiarity information: ALCEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALCEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers: hollyhocks; in some classification systems synonymous with genus Althaea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Alcea; genus Alcea

Hypernyms ("Alcea" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Alcea"):

hollyhock (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)

Alcea rosea; Althea rosea; rose mallow (plant with terminal racemes of showy white to pink or purple flowers; the English cottage garden hollyhock)

Holonyms ("Alcea" is a member of...):

family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)