Definition of Genus malva

1. Noun. Herbs and subshrubs: mallows.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Malva

genus Maianthemum
genus Maja
genus Majorana
genus Makaira
genus Malaclemys
genus Malacosoma
genus Malacothamnus
genus Malaxis
genus Malcolmia
genus Mallotus
genus Malope
genus Malopterurus
genus Malosma
genus Malpighia
genus Malus
genus Malva
genus Malvastrum
genus Malvaviscus
genus Mammea
genus Mammillaria
genus Mammut
genus Mammuthus
genus Mandevilla
genus Mandragora
genus Mandrillus
genus Manduca
genus Mangifera
genus Manihot
genus Manilkara
genus Manis

Literary usage of Genus malva

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs by American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Southern California Academy of Sciences, New York Academy of Sciences (1849)
"As the radicle, however, proved to be inferior in all of them, they were all placed in the genus Malva in the Flora of North America (except an obscure ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The special characters which separate the genus Malva from others most nearly allied to it are the involucre, consisting of a row of three separate bracts ..."

3. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals. by Loudon (Jane) (1842)
"The genus Malope differs from the genus Malva principally in the shape of the capsules, and the manner in which they are disposed. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The name mallow is loosely applied to many plants of the mallow family, but not of the genus Malva; for instance, marsh-mallow ..."

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