althea

2 definitions found

althea - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Althaea \Al*th[ae]"a\, Althea \Al*the"a\, n. [althaea, Gr. ?.]
     (Bot.)
     (a) A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the
         officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.
     (b) An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow
         family.
         [1913 Webster]

althea - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  althea
      n 1: any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but
           having smaller flowers than genus Alcea [syn: althea,
           althaea, hollyhock]