Any of a group of flowering plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially of the genus Malva. Several species are edible by humans.
1840, Robert Browning, Sordello, Book IV, in Sordello; Strafford; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1863, p. 112,
The thoroughfares were overrun with weed
— Docks, quitchgrass, loathly mallows no man plants.
Larentia clavaria, an uncommon moth found across Eurasia.
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