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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea;
[syn: althea, althaea, hollyhock]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

althea n 1: any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea [syn: althea, althaea, hollyhock]