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althea

/al-thee-uh/US // ælˈθi ə //

白头翁,木槿花,白头偕老,红褐色

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the rose of Sharon, Hibiscus syriacus.
    • : any plant belonging to the genus Althaea, of the mallow family, having lobed leaves and showy flowers in a spikelike cluster, including the hollyhocks and marsh mallows.

Examples

  • Althea is now re-scheduled with her surgeon for this spring.

  • Take a handful of dog's mercury and althea roots; half a handful of flos brochae ursini; six ounces of linseed and barley meal.

  • Did not the outlines of Althea's figure, which the bombyx robe only partially concealed, lack roundness even more than her own?

  • Althea was removed to her Aunt Leonora's, and forbidden to enter Juliet's house without permission, and accompanied.

  • Althea was now nearly sixteen; she had emerged from the somewhat unpromising age, and had developed into remarkable beauty.

  • He wrote him a letter full of the praises of Althea, assuring him that the picture enclosed failed in justice to the original.