| 单词 | malvaceous | 
| 释义 | malvaceousadj. Botany.   Resembling or related to the mallows; of or relating to the family  Malvaceae to which the mallows belong. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Malvaceae (mallows and allies) > 			[adjective]		 malvaceous1699 tiliaceous1891 1699    Philos. Trans. 		(Royal Soc.)	 21 64  				An exact Division of Mallows, or Malvaceous Plants. 1727    N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II  				Malvaceous, like, belonging to, or made with mallows. 1839    Penny Cycl. XIV. 352/1  				The tenacious fibres procured from the inner bark of many kinds of Malvaceous plants form a good description of cordage. 1880    C. Darwin  & F. Darwin Power of Movement in Plants 232  				The leaves in several Malvaceous genera sink at night. 1910    Encycl. Brit. XIII. 263/1  				Ambari hemp,..an Indian and East Indian malvaceous plant. 1970    T. E. Woodward  et al.  in  Insects of Austral. (Commonw. Sci. & Industr. Res. Organization, Austral.) xxvi. 450/1  				Tectocoris diophthalmus (Thunb.), the ‘harlequin bug’ of Queensland, attacks the bolls of cotton, and is common on other malvaceous plants. 1990    Jrnl. Agric. & Food Chem. 38 505 		(title)	  				Evidence for the presence of gossypol in malvaceous plants other than those in the ‘cotton tribe’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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