globe mallow

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   genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs of arid North and South America having pink or scarlet flowers and globose fruits

   Synonymsfalse mallow

   Broadermallow

   Narrowerprairie mallow

   Part ofSphaeralcea

Questions about globe mallow

What does globe mallow mean?

globe mallow means "genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs of arid North and South America having pink or scarlet flowers and globose fruits".

What is another word for globe mallow?

Close synonyms include false mallow. 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 globe mallow a common word?

globe 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.