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WAXMALLOW

Dictionary entry overview: What does waxmallow mean?

• WAXMALLOW (noun)
The noun WAXMALLOW has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: WAXMALLOW used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• WAXMALLOW (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

sleeping hibiscus; wax mallow; waxmallow

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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