POPPY MALLOW

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does poppy mallow mean? 

• POPPY MALLOW (noun)
  The noun POPPY MALLOW has 1 sense:

1. a plant of the genus Callirhoe having palmately cleft leaves and white to red or purple flowers borne throughout the summer

  Familiarity information: POPPY MALLOW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POPPY MALLOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant of the genus Callirhoe having palmately cleft leaves and white to red or purple flowers borne throughout the summer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("poppy mallow" is a kind of...):

mallow (any of various plants of the family Malvaceae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poppy mallow"):

Callirhoe digitata; fringed poppy mallow (perennial poppy mallow of United States southern plains states having rose-red or rose-purple flowers)

Callirhoe involucrata; purple poppy mallow (hairy perennial of central United States having round deeply lobed leaves and loose panicles of large crimson-purple or cherry-red flowers)

Callirhoe triangulata; clustered poppy mallow (densely hairy perennial having mostly triangular basal leaves and rose-purple flowers in panicled clusters)

Holonyms ("poppy mallow" is a member of...):

Callirhoe; genus Callirhoe (small genus of North American herbs having usually red or purple flowers)