sleeping hibiscus

1. 1.

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

   Synonymswaxmallowwax mallow

   Broadermallow

   Part ofMalvaviscus

Questions about sleeping hibiscus

What does sleeping hibiscus mean?

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

What is another word for sleeping hibiscus?

Close synonyms include waxmallow, wax 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 sleeping hibiscus a common word?

sleeping hibiscus 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.