Color Names

English Hollyhock

Faded garden hollyhock, soft as the petals that drop from the tall stems.

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English Hollyhock is a pale grey, close to blue.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and almost grey.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

English Hollyhock

Alcea

Alcea is a genus of over 80 species of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae, commonly known as the hollyhocks. They are native to Asia and Europe. The single species of hollyhock from the Americas, the streambank wild hollyhock, belongs to a different genus.

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Noun

  1. Spinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in pool, billiards or bowling; spin, sidespin.
  2. An unusual or unexpected interpretation of a text or idea, a spin, a nuance.

Verb

  1. Alternative form of English.
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hollyhock

Noun

  1. Any of several flowering plants of the genus Alcea in the Malvaceae family.
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