Any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea.
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Examples for "althea"
Examples for "althea"
1It was the althea-bud that I had offered to the sea-nymphs.
2There is no need that I should send out the althea-fragment.
3A faded flower, an althea-bud, was still pendent from my coat.
4And then we would catch bees in the althea blooms.
5Naturally, Althea was a changed person in the eyes of her husband.
1One flower of a hollyhock just above her head had turned blue.
2Rebecca was weeding the hollyhock bed When marvelous thoughts came into her head.
3There was a certain dark wine-hued hollyhock which was a favourite with him.
4The hollyhock painting of this chapter is from this study.
5The motion detached and wove through the plots of hollyhock.
1Against the house she had planted myrtle, jasmine and althaea, and in the yard, fig, orange and oleander.
2Althæa was in the temple making sacrifice to the gods.
3In response, Althaea returned that ember to the fireplace, thus bringing about her own son's death.
4As long as this was kept safe by Althaea, his mother, Meleager bore a charmed life.
5They were brothers to Meleagrus's mother, Althæa.
6MELEAGER, one of the Argonauts (See Althaea)
7Now Althæa was a woman who had sight to see mysterious things, but who had also a wayward and passionate heart.
8ALTHAEA, in classical legend, daughter of Thestius, king of Aetolia, wife of Oeneus, king of Calydon, and mother of Meleager (q.v..)
9Althaea, mother of Meleager, whom she slew because he had in a quarrel killed her brothers, thus disgracing "the house of Thestius," her father.
10"My brothers have been slain because a girl bewitched my son; then accursed be that son of mine," Althæa cried.