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mallow /ˈmaləʊ /nounA herbaceous plant with hairy stems, pink or purple flowers, and disc-shaped fruit.- Genus Malva, family Malvaceae (the mallow family, which also contains hollyhocks, hibiscus, and abutilon): many species. See also marshmallow, tree mallow.
The look is deliberately natural, with an emphasis on indigenous plants such as swamp mallow and drought-tolerant ornamental grasses....- Other locals include yarrow, pussytoes, mallow, cudweed, meadowsweet, and chickweed.
- My parents are buried in a garden I made in Water Mill, the graves two unmarked stones, surrounded by Montauk daisies and pink mallow.
OriginOld English meal(u)we, from Latin malva; related to Greek malakhē; compare with mauve. Rhymesaloe, callow, fallow, hallow, marshmallow, sallow, shallow, tallow |