Any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea.
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.
5As I paused in my rowing to watch the althea-bud set afloat, I heard a tiny splash in the waters.
6They went into the house, the children scattering and peeping from corners and from behind the althea bushes in the yard.
7It was for a minute only, for near a turn in the path he bent forward and disappeared in a thicket of althea bushes.
8Naturally, Althea was a changed person in the eyes of her husband.
9There's no Althea Burnside living in De Pere, I know that much.
10And yet the brothers of Queen Althea kept on muttering and complaining.
11In June, the month of roses, came Hubert Lisle to visit Althea.
12A reveals to Q that he met Althea on a park bench.
13Althea was among the guests, but she took little notice of Hermon.
14Her children were now there, and Althea, and further back the servants.
15But Althea was not won so easily from her stronghold of duty.
16After high School I went with his daughter Althea for a while.