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GENUS ALCEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Alcea mean?
• GENUS ALCEA (noun)
The noun GENUS ALCEA has 1 sense:
1. genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers: hollyhocks; in some classification systems synonymous with genus Althaea
Familiarity information: GENUS ALCEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers: hollyhocks; in some classification systems synonymous with genus Althaea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Alcea; genus Alcea
Hypernyms ("genus Alcea" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Alcea"):
hollyhock (any of various tall plants of the genus Alcea; native to the Middle East but widely naturalized and cultivated for its very large variously colored flowers)
Alcea rosea; Althea rosea; rose mallow (plant with terminal racemes of showy white to pink or purple flowers; the English cottage garden hollyhock)
Holonyms ("genus Alcea" is a member of...):
family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)
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