noun
1. perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North America that is also cultivated
• Syn: ↑checkerbloom, ↑Sidalcea malviflora
• Hypernyms: ↑mallow
• Member Holonyms: ↑Sidalcea, ↑genus Sidalcea
2. a rare mallow found only in Illinois resembling the common hollyhock and having pale rose-mauve flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sphaeralcea
• Syn: ↑Iliamna remota, ↑Sphaeralcea remota
• Hypernyms: ↑mallow
• Member Holonyms: ↑Iliamna, ↑genus Iliamna
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noun : any of several mallows (especially of the genera Callirhoë, Sidalcea, and Sphaeralcea) resembling the common hollyhock
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checkerbloom.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.