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GLOBE MALLOW

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Meaning:

Genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs of arid North and South America having pink or scarlet flowers and globose fruits

Synonyms:

false mallow; globe mallow

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("globe mallow" is a kind of...):

mallow (any of various plants of the family Malvaceae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "globe mallow"):

Malvastrum coccineum; prairie mallow; red false mallow; Sphaeralcea coccinea (false mallow of western United States having racemose red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Malvastrum)

Holonyms ("globe mallow" is a member of...):

genus Sphaeralcea; Sphaeralcea (large genus of chiefly tropical herbs with showy flowers and mostly globose fruits: globe mallows)

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