noun
genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs of arid North and South America having pink or scarlet flowers and globose fruits
• Syn: ↑false mallow
• Hypernyms: ↑mallow
• Hyponyms: ↑prairie mallow, ↑red false mallow, ↑Sphaeralcea coccinea, ↑Malvastrum coccineum
• Member Holonyms: ↑Sphaeralcea, ↑genus Sphaeralcea
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noun : a plant of the genus Sphaeralcea
Useful english dictionary. 2012.