WAXMALLOW

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Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers

Synonyms:

sleeping hibiscus; wax mallow; waxmallow

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("waxmallow" is a kind of...):

mallow (any of various plants of the family Malvaceae)

Holonyms ("waxmallow" is a member of...):

genus Malvaviscus; Malvaviscus (small genus of shrubs of Central and South America: wax mallows)

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