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mallow
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mallow \Mal"low\, Mallows \Mal"lows\, n. [OE. malwe, AS. mealwe, fr. L. malva, akin to Gr. mala`chh; cf. mala`ssein to soften, malako`s soft. Named either from its softening or relaxing properties, or from its soft downy leaves. Cf. Mauve, Malachite.] (Bot.) A genus of plants ( Malva) having mucilaginous qualities. See Malvaceous.
Note: The flowers of the common mallow ( Malva sylvestris) are used in medicine. The dwarf mallow ( Malva rotundifolia) is a common weed, and its flattened, dick-shaped fruits are called cheeses by children. Tree mallow ( Malva Mauritiana and Lavatera arborea), musk mallow ( Malva moschata), rose mallow or hollyhock, and curled mallow ( Malva crispa), are less commonly seen.
Indian mallow. See Abutilon.
Jew's mallow, a plant ( Corchorus olitorius) used as a pot herb by the Jews of Egypt and Syria.
Marsh mallow. See under Marsh.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from late Old English malwe, from Latin malva "mallows," from a pre-Latin Mediterranean language. The same lost word apparently yielded Greek malakhe "mallow."
Wiktionary
n. Any of a group of flowering plants in several genera of the taxonomic family ''Malvaceae'', especially of the genus ''Malva''. Several species are edible by humans.
WordNet
n. any of various plants of the family Malvaceae
Wikipedia
Mallow or mallows may refer to:
Nature:-
Malvaceae, family of plants; in particular the following genera:
- Abelmoschus
- Althaea (plant) – marsh mallow
- Callirhoe (genus) – poppy mallow
- Corchorus – mallow, molokia, mlukhia
- Eremalche
- Hibiscus – rosemallow
- Kosteletzkya – seashore mallow
- Lavatera – tree mallow or rose mallow
- Malacothamnus – bush-mallow
- Malva – mallow
- Malvaviscus – Turk's cap mallow, wax mallow
- Sidalcea – Greek mallow, chequer-mallow
- Sphaeralcea – globemallow
- insects:
- Larentia clavaria – mallow, species of moth
- Mallow skipper, butterfly
- Mallow, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
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Mallow, County Cork, a town in the Republic of Ireland
- Mallow (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
- Mallow GAA
- Mallow, Virginia, United States
- Mallows Bay, Maryland, United States
- Dave Mallow (born 1948), U.S. voice actor, also known as Colin Phillips
- Johannes Mallow (born 1981) German memory-sports competitor
- Hober Mallow, character in the Foundation series of novels of Isaac Asimov
- Prince Mallow, a playable cloud-like character in Super Mario RPG, a 1996 adventure/console role-playing game
- Beriev Be-10, Soviet jet-engined flying boat (NATO reporting name "Mallow")
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(later HMAS Mallow), sloop launched in 1915
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, corvette from World War II
- Mallow, a championship winning Ultimate Frisbee Team from Billings, Montana
- Mallow, a toy line by Shocker Toys
- Marshmallow, a sweet originally made from the marsh mallow
- Malvi language of the Malwa region of India
- Mallows's C, in statistics, a stopping rule for stepwise regression
- Mauve (also known as mallow), a color
- redirect Mallow
Mallow was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801.
Mallow was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800 and was incorporated by Charter of 1613, with a further charter of 1689. It was a manor borough, the franchise being vested in the freeholders of the manor and the returning officer its Seneschal. It was controlled by the Jephson family until the 1780s.
Usage examples of "mallow".
It was a joke often repeated in the Mallow household that Prudence had been well-named.
A dozen times a day Miss Mallow or her mother was forced to admire his pastel blobs, reading into them character, beauty, sentiment, and all else they lacked.
The only difference putting on her cap made to Miss Mallow was that she thought rather more than she used to about marriage.
An invitation to the same party was extended by letter to Miss Mallow as a special treat.
The description sounded very much like it, and Miss Mallow felt overcome.
I am so ill prepared is that I have spent the whole afternoon reading another book by that Miss Mallow you recommended.
My Miss Mallow could not by the broadest interpretation be called impertinent.
Dammler spent many afternoons with Miss Mallow, but his evenings were still given over to his customary pursuits.
Miss Mallow was exactly the kind of cultivated lady he required to lend him a little tone.
Seville had called on Miss Mallow two days after the ball and found her out with Dammler.
For that matter, Miss Mallow should know better than to be here with him alone.
The next afternoon, Miss Mallow was honoured once again with a call from Dammler.
Do me a favour, Miss Mallow, put them back on and start pretending you are forty or so again, so I can stop worrying about you.
Miss Mallow was becoming known to Society, more through her association with Dammler than through her writings, and Seville was not the only gentleman who was beginning to look in her way.
He wanted a mistress who would set him above the common herd, and thought he had hit on a capital idea in having Miss Mallow fill the position.