mallow

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English malwe, from Old English mealwe, borrowed from Latin malva. Compare the doublet mauve. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmæləʊ/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈmæloʊ/ Rhymes: -æləʊ === Noun === mallow (countable and uncountable, plural mallows) Any of a group of flowering plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially of the genus Malva. Several species are edible by humans. 1840, Robert Browning, Sordello, Book IV, in Sordello; Strafford; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1863, p. 112,[2] The thoroughfares were overrun with weed — Docks, quitchgrass, loathly mallows no man plants. Larentia clavaria, an uncommon moth found across Eurasia. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Wollam