Definition of "althaea" []

• A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks. (noun)
• An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family. (noun)

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• "[L. althaea, a marsh mallow, f. [the Greek] to heal.]"
• "Round the guard-house a number of negro girls, with broad flat baskets on their heads, were selling fruit and cold water: they had decked their woolly hair, and the edges of their baskets, with garlands of the scarlet althaea; their light blue or white cloaks were thrown gracefully across their dusky shoulders, and white jackets, so that it was such a picture as the early Spaniards might have drawn of their Eldorado."
• "The plant is althaea officinalis - it may have had a connection with the plant in a dim and distant English past, but these days it has none. matzah - aka matzo unleavened bread, basically a dry biscuit."