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