white mallow

1. 1.

   European perennial plant naturalized in United States having triangular ovate leaves and lilac-pink flowers

   Synonymsmarsh mallowAlthea officinalis

   Broaderalthea

   Part ofgenus Althaea

Questions about white mallow

What does white mallow mean?

white mallow means "European perennial plant naturalized in United States having triangular ovate leaves and lilac-pink flowers".

What is another word for white mallow?

Close synonyms include marsh mallow, Althea officinalis. 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 white mallow a common word?

white 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.