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malvaceous

malvaceous


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Malvaceous  \Mal*va"ceous\,  a.  [L.  malvaceus,  from  malva  mallows. 
  See  {Mallow}.]  (Bot.) 
  Pertaining  to  or  resembling,  a  natural  order  of  plants 
  ({Malvace[ae]}),  of  which  the  mallow  is  the  type  The  cotton 
  plant,  hollyhock,  and  abutilon  are  of  this  order  and  the 
  baobab  and  the  silk-cotton  trees  are  now  referred  to  it