chaparral mallow

1. 1.

   shrub of coastal ranges of California and Baja California having hairy branches and spikes of numerous mauve flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sphaeralcea

   SynonymsMalacothamnus fasciculatusSphaeralcea fasciculata

   Broadermallow

   Part ofMalacothamnus

Questions about chaparral mallow

What does chaparral mallow mean?

chaparral mallow means "shrub of coastal ranges of California and Baja California having hairy branches and spikes of numerous mauve flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sphaeralcea".

What is another word for chaparral mallow?

Close synonyms include Malacothamnus fasciculatus, Sphaeralcea fasciculata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chaparral mallow a common word?

chaparral mallow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.