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WAXMALLOW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does waxmallow mean?
• WAXMALLOW (noun)
The noun WAXMALLOW has 1 sense:
1. any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers
Familiarity information: WAXMALLOW used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
sleeping hibiscus; wax mallow; waxmallow
Hypernyms ("waxmallow" is a kind of...):
mallow (any of various plants of the family Malvaceae)
Holonyms ("waxmallow" is a member of...):
genus Malvaviscus; Malvaviscus (small genus of shrubs of Central and South America: wax mallows)
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