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GENUS MALVA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Malva mean?
• GENUS MALVA (noun)
The noun GENUS MALVA has 1 sense:
1. herbs and subshrubs: mallows
Familiarity information: GENUS MALVA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Herbs and subshrubs: mallows
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Malva; Malva
Hypernyms ("genus Malva" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Malva"):
Malva moschata; mus rose; musk mallow (erect Old World perennial with faintly musk-scented foliage and white or pink flowers; adventive in United States)
common mallow; Malva neglecta (annual Old World plant with clusters of pink or white flowers; naturalized in United States)
cheese; cheeseflower; high mallow; Malva sylvestris; tall mallow (erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States)
Holonyms ("genus Malva" is a member of...):
family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)
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