Crossword clues for althea
althea
- Tennis legend Gibson
- Gibson of tennis
- International Tennis Hall of Fame's Gibson
- Gibson the tennis legend
- Wimbledon winner Gibson
- Miss Gibson
- Lovelace's addressee for "Stone walls do not a prison make"
- Gibson of the courts
- Tennis player Gibson
- Tennis Hall of Famer Gibson
- Pro athlete often linked with Wilma
- Legendary Wimbledon champ Gibson
- Inspiration for Venus and Serena
- Gibson of 1950s tennis
- Gibson girl?
- '50s tennis standout Gibson
- ___ Leasure (Courtney Love's role in "The People vs. Larry Flynt")
- __ Gibson, first African-American to win a Grand Slam tennis title
- Wimbledon champ Gibson
- Two-time Wimbledon winner Gibson
- Gibson of tennis fame
- Lovelace's "To ___, From Prison"
- Tennis champ Gibson
- Tennis great Gibson
- Tennis star Gibson
- 1950s tennis champion Gibson
- 1957 Wimbledon winner Gibson
- Gibson who was the first person of color to win a tennis Grand Slam event
- Any of various plants of the genus Althaea
- Similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea
- Rose of Sharon
- '50s tennis star Gibson
- Gibson or Lovelace's love
- See 5 Down
- A lieutenant: he meets a lady
- Ornamental shrub
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Althaea \Al*th[ae]"a\, ||Althea \Al*the"a\, n. [althaea, Gr. ?.] (Bot.)
A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.
An ornamental shrub ( Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family.
Wiktionary
n. Any of several plants of the genus (taxlink Althaea genus noshow=1); the hollyhocks and mallows, native to Eurasia.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Althea is an English female personal name. It is a variation of the Greek name Althaea, which may be related to Greek althos ("healing").
Richard Lovelace used the name in a poem (" To Althea, From Prison") that John Milton later alluded to in Lycidas.
Usage examples of "althea".
Ruining the whole evening as far as Althea was concerned and accomplishing absolutely nothing.
Phillips ignored what Miss Althea was saying and began talking about his son, Oather.
Jesse figured he must be talking to the drummer, because Miss Althea already knew everything there was to know about Oather, everybody on the mountain did.
After his marriage to Althea, her husband had had no use for Jesse or any of the Best family.
But Althea Win-sloe had not expected Jesse Best to show up on her doorstep before daylight the next morning.
Henry, the old rooster, was now sporting a bandanna around his neck and from the shape of the stick the little boy held in his hand, Althea speculated that the old bird had just robbed a train or busted into a bank.
Slightly disconcerted by the sight, Althea determinedly forced her gaze up to his bright blue eyes that looked down on her inquiringly.
And Miss Althea sitting across from him at the table, smiling and talking.
His handsome smile was a sight to behold, but Althea barely bothered to glance at it.
Eben pulled back immediately and Althea, with a little cry of horror, jumped up off the bed.
If Miss Althea and her boy were to make it through the winter, they would need game.
Miss Althea had said so and nothing Eben Baxley might say could make it any different.
He wanted to show Miss Althea, with their help and the gun, just how much game he could put on her table.
The burden, heavy as it was, lightened considerably as he imagined how proud and thrilled Miss Althea would be with her winter meat.
With all the force she could manage Althea slapped him across the face.