Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Althea"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
althea
n : any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but
having smaller flowers than genus Alcea [syn: {althaea},
{hollyhock}]
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