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POPPY MALLOW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant of the genus Callirhoe having palmately cleft leaves and white to red or purple flowers borne throughout the summer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("poppy mallow" is a kind of...):
mallow (any of various plants of the family Malvaceae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poppy mallow"):
Callirhoe digitata; fringed poppy mallow (perennial poppy mallow of United States southern plains states having rose-red or rose-purple flowers)
Callirhoe involucrata; purple poppy mallow (hairy perennial of central United States having round deeply lobed leaves and loose panicles of large crimson-purple or cherry-red flowers)
Callirhoe triangulata; clustered poppy mallow (densely hairy perennial having mostly triangular basal leaves and rose-purple flowers in panicled clusters)
Holonyms ("poppy mallow" is a member of...):
Callirhoe; genus Callirhoe (small genus of North American herbs having usually red or purple flowers)
