name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
mallow
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/ˈmæləʊ/
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UK: /ˈmæləʊ/
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US: /ˈmæloʊ/
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name
Meaning 2
A town in County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 5598).
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
A locality in the County of Newell, Alberta, Canada.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 4
An unincorporated community in Alleghany County, Virginia, United States.
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noun
Meaning 5
Any of a group of flowering plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially of the genus Malva. Several species are edible by humans.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 1840, Robert Browning, Sordello, Book IV, in Sordello; Strafford; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1863, p. 112, The thoroughfares were overrun with weed — Docks, quitchgrass, loathly mallows no man plants.
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noun
Meaning 6
Larentia clavaria, an uncommon moth found across Eurasia.
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noun
Meaning 7
any of various plants of the family Malvaceae
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: shrub, bush
Narrower terms: musk mallow, mus rose, Malva moschata, common mallow, Malva neglecta, tall mallow, high mallow, cheese, cheeseflower, Malva sylvestris, abelmosk, Abelmoschus moschatus, Hibiscus moschatus, velvetleaf, velvet-leaf, velvetweed, Indian mallow, butter-print, China jute, Abutilon theophrasti, hollyhock, althea, althaea, poppy mallow, hibiscus, wild hollyhock, Iliamna remota, Sphaeralcea remota, mountain hollyhock, Iliamna ruvularis, Iliamna acerifolia, seashore mallow, chaparral mallow, Malacothamnus fasciculatus, Sphaeralcea fasciculata, malope, Malope trifida, false mallow, waxmallow, wax mallow, sleeping hibiscus, glade mallow, Napaea dioica, Virginia mallow, Sida hermaphrodita, Queensland hemp, jellyleaf, Sida rhombifolia, Sida spinosa, checkerbloom, Sidalcea malviflora, globe mallow
History
Etymology
From Irish Meallach.
From Middle English malwe, from Old English mealwe, borrowed from Latin malva. Compare the doublet mauve.
Across languages
Translations
63 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: mëllagë — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Arabic: خُبَازَى (ḵubāzā) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Armenian: փիփերթ (pʻipʻertʻ) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Azerbaijani: əməköməci — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Bulgarian: слез (slez) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Catalan: malva — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Chinese Mandarin: 錦葵 /锦葵 (jǐnkuí) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- West Circassian: абэдзэкъуай (abɛdzɛqwaj) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Czech: sléz — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Dutch: kaasjeskruid — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Esperanto: malvo — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Finnish: malva — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- French: mauve — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Friulian: malve — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Galician: malva — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Georgian: ბალბა (balba) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- German: Malve — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Greek: μολόχα (molócha) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Ancient Greek: μαλάχη (malákhē) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Pontic Greek: μολόχ̌ι (molóši) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Hebrew: חלמית (ḥelmít) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Hungarian: mályva — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Hungarian: papsajt — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Ido: malvo — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Italian: malva — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Japanese: 葵 (aoi) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Japanese: 銭葵 (zeniaoi) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Kazakh: құлқайыр (qūlqaiyr) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Korean: 동규자 (donggyuja) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Latin: malva — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Lithuanian: dedešva — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Māori: marou — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Middle English: malwe — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Norman: p'tite mauve — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Norwegian Bokmål: kattostfamilien — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Occitan: malva — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Old English: cottuc — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Old English: mealwe — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Old English: ġeormanlēaf — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Persian: ورتاج (vartâj) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Persian: پنیرک (panirak) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Polish: ślaz — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Portuguese: malva — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Romanian: nalbă — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Russian: ма́льва (málʹva) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Sardinian: narba — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Sardinian: mafra — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Sardinian: marma — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Sardinian: màrmara — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Serbo-Croatian: slez — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Sicilian: marva — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Sicilian: màliva — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Slovene: slezenovec — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Upper Sorbian: šlěz — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Spanish: malva — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Swedish: malva — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Tagalog: padurut — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Turkish: ebegümeci — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Ottoman Turkish: ابه كومجی (ebe gümeci) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Ukrainian: мальва (malʹva) — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Venetan: nalba — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Welsh: hocys — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae
- Welsh: malw — any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae