mallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæləʊ/
ipa: /ˈmæloʊ/
rhymes: -æləʊ
Forms: form: mallows
Etymology: From Middle English malwe, from Old English mealwe, borrowed from Latin malva. Compare the doublet mauve.
Senses: examples: text: Gonzalo. Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,—
Antonio. He’ld sow’t with nettle-seed.
Sebastian. Or docks, or mallows.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 30:3-4:
text: Not Heathpout, or the rarer Bird, / Which Phasis, or Ionia yields, / More pleasing Morsels would afford / Than the fat Olives of my Fields; / Than Shards or Mallows for the Pot, / That keep the loosen’d Body sound, / Or than the Lamb that falls by Lot, / To the just Guardian of my Ground.
ref: 1684, John Dryden, “From Horace, Epode 2”, in The Second Part of Miscellany Poems, 4th edition, London: Jacob Tonson, page 79:
text: 1840, Robert Browning, Sordello, Book IV, in Sordello; Strafford; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1863, p. 112,
The thoroughfares were overrun with weed
— Docks, quitchgrass, loathly mallows no man plants.
text: The Time Traveller paused, put his hand into his pocket, and silently placed two withered flowers, not unlike very large white mallows, upon the little table. Then he resumed his narrative.
ref: 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 7, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:
text: 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: The root of the mallow in goat's milk excites the sexual urge, according to Pliny the Elder, the Roman encyclopedist of the first century A.D.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 144:
text: Hallo Hallo, brain of tallow, / Guts are gone, noggin’s hollow. / Seeking sweets and marshing mallows, / Watch your back, and your candy sack.
ref: 2017 October 19, “Hallohallo”, in Circuit Break, Konami:
glosses: 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.
glosses: Larentia clavaria, an uncommon moth found across Eurasia.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Sida hederacea
word: alkali mallow
taxonomic: Malva rotundifolia
word: blue mallow
taxonomic: Malacothamnus fasciculatus
alt: syn. Sphaeralcea fasciculata
word: chaparral mallow
word: Chinese mallow
taxonomic: Malva rotundifolia
word: common mallow
taxonomic: Sidalcea spp.
word: checkermallow
taxonomic: Malva rotundifolia
word: country mallow
taxonomic: Malva verticillata crispa
word: curled mallow
taxonomic: Malva alcea
word: cut-leaved mallow
taxonomic: Malva rotundifolia
word: dwarf mallow
taxonomic: Malva alcea
word: European mallow
taxonomic: Malvastrum spp.
alt: et al.
word: false mallow
taxonomic: Napaea dioica
word: glade mallow
taxonomic: Sphaeralcea spp.
word: globe mallow
taxonomic: Sidalcea spp.
word: Greek mallow
taxonomic: Malva rotundifolia
word: ground mallow
taxonomic: Malva sylvestris
word: high mallow
taxonomic: Malva alcea
word: hollyhock mallow
taxonomic: Sida spinosa
word: Indian mallow
taxonomic: Kerria japonica
word: Jew's mallow
taxonomic: Corchorus olitorius
word: jute mallow
taxonomic: Malva rotundifolia
word: low mallow
taxonomic: Carcharodus alceae
word: mallow skipper
word: mallowwort
word: marsh mallow
taxonomic: Althaea officinalis
word: marshmallow
taxonomic: Abelmoschus moschatus
word: musk mallow
taxonomic: Hibiscus moscheutos
word: mallow rose
word: Parry's mallow (Eremalche parryi
taxonomic: Callirhoe spp.
word: poppy mallow
taxonomic: Sidalcea spp.
word: prairie mallow
taxonomic: Hibiscus moscheutos
word: rose mallow
taxonomic: Malva rotundifolia
word: running mallow
alt: Kosteletzya virginica
word: salt marsh mallow
taxonomic: Lavatera spp.
word: sea mallow
alt: Kosteletzya spp.
word: seashore mallow
taxonomic: Hibiscus syriacus
word: shrub mallow
taxonomic: Hibiscus moscheutos
word: swamp mallow
taxonomic: Malva sylvestris
word: tall mallow
taxonomic: Lavatera spp.
word: tree mallow
taxonomic: Hibiscus trionum
word: Venice mallow
taxonomic: Malva alcea
word: vervain mallow
alt: Hibuscus moscheutos
word: water mallow
word: wax mallow
taxonomic: Malvaviscus spp.
word: waxmallow
taxonomic: Eremalche exilis
word: white mallow
taxonomic: Malva verticillata crispa
word: whorled mallow