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mallow

see also: Mallow

Pronunciation

(British) IPA: /ˈmæləʊ/
(America) IPA: /ˈmæloʊ/

Noun

mallow (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.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, Scene 1,
  Gonzalo. Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,—
  Antonio. He’ld sow’t with nettle-seed.
  Sebastian. Or docks, or mallows.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Job 30:3-4,
  For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
- 1684, John Dryden, “From Horace, Epode 2” in The Second Part of Miscellany Poems, London: Jacob Tonson, 4th edition, p. 79,
  Not Heathpout, or the rarer Bird,
  Which Phasis, or Ionia yields,
  More pleasing Morsels would afford
  Than the fat Olives of my Fields;
  Than Shards or Mallows for the Pot,
  That keep the loosen’d Body sound,
  Or than the Lamb that falls by Lot,
  To the just Guardian of my Ground.
- 1840, Robert Browning, Sordello, Book IV, in Sordello; Strafford; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1863, p. 112,
  The thoroughfares were overrun with weed
  — Docks, quitchgrass, loathly mallows no man plants.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter 7,
  The Time Traveller paused, put his hand into his pocket, and silently placed two withered flowers, not unlike very large white mallows, upon the little table. Then he resumed his narrative.

Translations

French: mauve
German: Malve
Italian: malva
Portuguese: malva
Russian: ма́льва
Spanish: malva

Mallow

Proper noun

Surname
A town in Cork, Ireland.
A locality in the County of Newell, Alberta.
An unincorporated community in Alleghany County, Virginia.

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