genus Malvaviscus

Thesaurus

Noun

1.genus Malvaviscus - small genus of shrubs of Central and South America: wax mallowsMalvaviscusdilleniid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbsfamily Malvaceae, mallow family, Malvaceae - herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okrasleeping hibiscus, wax mallow, waxmallow - any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers