Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun alcea_rosea

1 sense of alcea rosea

Sense 1
rose mallow, Alcea rosea, Althea rosea -- (plant with terminal racemes of showy white to pink or purple flowers; the English cottage garden hollyhock)
       => hollyhock -- (any of various tall plants of the genus Alcea; native to the Middle East but widely naturalized and cultivated for its very large variously colored flowers)