Althea
- n. An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family.
- n. A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.