mallow
any of various plants of the genus Malva, including several popular garden plants, as the musk mallow.
Origin of mallow
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How to use mallow in a sentence
Whether you toast these fluffy candies over a campfire, float them in a mug of hot cocoa, or simply eat them plain, ’mallows are a quintessential fall and winter treat.
Can you handle these fat, fluffy DIY marshmallows? Let’s find out. | Natalie Wallington | September 9, 2021 | Popular-ScienceHe chose the footpath alongside the low wall of the garden, but stopped at the angle where the wild mallow grew.
Toilers of the Sea | Victor HugoBut our common mallow is closely allied to some of the handsomest plants known.
The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare | Henry Nicholson EllacombeIn the mallow, for example, each grain is an opaque ball, covered over with small points.
The Book of Curiosities | I. PlattsThis is because fine, mallow soils are able to hold more moisture than very loose and open or very dense and compact ones.
The Practical Garden-Book | C. E. Hunn
They know not how much more the half is than the whole, nor what great advantage there is in mallow and asphodel 1301.
Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | Homer and Hesiod
British Dictionary definitions for mallow
/ (ˈmæləʊ) /
any plant of the malvaceous genus Malva, esp M. sylvestris of Europe, having purple, pink, or white flowers: See also dwarf mallow, musk mallow
any of various related plants, such as the marsh mallow, rose mallow, Indian mallow, and tree mallow
Origin of mallow
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