lavatera

English Thesaurus

1. widespread genus of herbs or softwood arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	dilleniid dicot genus,
definition	:	genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	lavatera arborea, tree mallow, velvet-leaf, velvetleaf,
definition	:	arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers; southwestern United States (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family malvaceae, mallow family, malvaceae,
definition	:	herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra (noun.plant)