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Definition of Alcea rosea

1. Noun. Plant with terminal racemes of showy white to pink or purple flowers; the English cottage garden hollyhock.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alcea Rosea

Literary usage of Alcea rosea

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

1. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1848)
"If the two layers of water are coloured with tincture of the flower of Alcea rosea, the negative »¡rf dipped into the solution of sulphate of potash, ..."

2. Works of the Cavendish Society by Cavendish Society, London (1848)
"If the two layers of water are coloured with tincture of the flower of Alcea rosea, the negative wire dipped into the solution of sulphate of potash, ..."

3. A Botanical Materia Medica by Jonathan Stokes (1812)
"ALCEA. rosea. Leaves cordate; lobes and angles 5 and 7. Obs. 6042. In a garden.—L. sp. 966. Krock. n. 1127. Л- KU 446. ..."

4. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"... parts of the plant, abounds in mucilage, and in medicine is often used a» an emollient to promote suppuration. Sept. j. 2. A. ROSEA. Cav. (alcea rosea. ..."

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