Malvacea
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Malvacea is a noun meaning Any plant of the mallow family, Malvaceae.
Meaning
Any plant of the mallow family, Malvaceae.
Example Sentences
[…]; Malva Blanca (Wiltheria Americana) and a very wide list of palms and malvaceas.
As textile plants, we have cotton, maguey, and emajagua, and, less useful, the guasima and some herbaceous malvaceas.
A group of the malvaceas, known as vassouras, is so persistent and universal in its growth that, if Brazil possessed a department similar to that in the Australian Colonies, they would become proclaimed plants.
Not a single one of these malvaceas but has its property, purgative or febrifuginous, and if medical botany ever minutely studies these humble climbers, in root, bark, and flower, they will find more than one treasure.
Word Forms
- malvaceas
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include malva, mallowwort, mallow, cheeses, malvid, lavatera.
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