rose mallow
- noun
- /roʊz ˈmæl.oʊ/
- US
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malva rosa
- She planted a rose mallow by the pond to attract butterflies and bees.
Examples
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Strolling through the marsh, he admired the striking flowers of the rose mallow.
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The garden was filled with beautiful rose mallow.
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The rose mallow brightened the wetland with its large pink blossoms in midsummer.
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I planted some rose mallows in my backyard.
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The garden was brightened by the vibrant pink flowers of the rose mallow that bloomed all summer.
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She admired the large, colorful blossoms of the rose mallow swaying gently in the breeze.
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The tall rose mallow added a splash of color to the otherwise green landscape of the park.
Synonyms
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6.7
A tall garden plant with large, colorful flowers
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7.0
A small plant with pink or purple flowers and soft hairy leaves
A large plant that lives for many years with big rose-colored flowers that grows in wet places like marshes
A tall plant with large rose-colored flowers that grows in salt marshes
A showy shrub that grows in salt marshes and has large pink flowers
A tall wild plant with bright showy flowers often purple
A tall garden plant with showy white, pink or purple flowers called hollyhock
A tall garden plant with large bright white, pink, or purple flowers
A Chinese bush with large flowers that change from white or pink to deep red in a day
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'rose' (a showy flower) modifies 'mallow' (a flowering plant), so together they denote a mallow with rose-like, showy flowers. This noun+noun compounding for plant names is a common and transparent pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reasonably infer the overall meaning.
Etymology
Rose mallow may come from gardeners seeing a mallow plant with large, soft flowers that looked like a rose. So the name gives the image of a mallow with rose-like flowers, which is why it now means 'a tall, showy garden plant'.