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Definition of Malope
1. Noun. Western Mediterranean annual having deep purple-red flowers subtended by 3 large cordate bracts.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Malope
Literary usage of Malope
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ladies Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals by Loudon (Jane) (1842)
"The genus malope differs from the genus Malva principally in the shape of ...
In the Malva they unite so as to form a flat capsule, but in the malope they ..."
2. The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595-1606 by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Clements Robert Markham, Basil Harrington Soulsby, Luis de Belmonte y Bermúdez, Gaspar Gonzalez de Leza, Juan de Torquemada, Luis Vaez de Torres, Diego de Prado y Tobar, Fernando de Castro (1904)
"and retired behind their houses and the trunks of trees with their bows and
arrows, shouting and apparently calling to malope. He seemed to be undecided, ..."
3. Ocean's Story; Or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries: A Graphic Description of by Frank Boott Goodrich, Edward Howland (1873)
"The Indian said hia name was malope'. The admiral replied that his was Mendana.
malope* at once rejoined that he would be ..."
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