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Definition: Hollyhock |
HollyhockNoun1. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea. 2. Any of various tall plants of the genus Alcea; native to the Middle East but widely naturalized and cultivated for its very large variously colored flowers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hollyhock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references) |
Etymology: Hollyhock \Hol"ly*hock\, noun. [from Old English expression holihoc; holi holy hoc mallow, Anglo-Saxon hoc; compare to Welsh hocys mallows, hocys bendigaid hollyhock, literally, blessed mallow. probably so named because brought from the Holy Land. See Holy.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Hollyhock is the Anglo-Saxon, holihoc, the marsh-mallow. It is a mistake to derive it from Holy-oak. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: HollyhockSynonyms: althaea (n), althea (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hollyhock |
| English words defined with "hollyhock": Alcea rosea, Althea rosea ♦ Iliamna acerifolia, Iliamna remota, Iliamna ruvularis ♦ Malvaceous, mountain hollyhock ♦ rose mallow ♦ Sphaeralcea remota ♦ wild hollyhock. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Flowers and plants. Hollyhock II. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Black Hollyhock" by Lynn Cummings Commentary: "Interesting flower that grows on stalks taller than I am. (Ok, so I'm really short.)." | "Hollyhock" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Worm's eye view of a hollyhock stalk." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Hollyhock" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Hollyhock" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "hollyhock": mountain hollyhock ♦ wild hollyhock. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hollyhock | 213 | hollyhock weevil | 4 |
hollyhock flower | 47 | care hollyhock | 3 |
hollyhock house | 22 | hollyhock perennial | 3 |
hollyhock plant | 20 | hollyhock pest | 3 |
hollyhock seed | 11 | hollyhock retreat | 3 |
hollyhock picture | 8 | fig hollyhock leaf | 3 |
disease hollyhock | 6 | hollyhock mallow | 3 |
hollyhock lamp tiffany | 5 | farm hollyhock | 2 |
flower hollyhock picture | 5 | hollyhock zebrina | 2 |
doll hollyhock | 5 | cultivation hollyhock | 2 |
hollyhock rust | 4 | hollyhock photo | 2 |
black hollyhock | 4 | hollyhock planting | 2 |
hill hollyhock | 4 | hollyhock miniature | 2 |
french hollyhock | 4 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "hollyhock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mëllagë. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ружа (rose-mallow). (various references) | |
Cornish | malowen lowarth. (various references) | |
Farsi | ختمی درختی(گ.ش.). (various references) | |
French | trémière. (various references) | |
German | malve (mallow). (various references) | |
Greek | αγριομολόχα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | mályvarózsa. (various references) | |
Italian | altea rosata. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 花葵 , 葵 , 立葵 , 立ち葵 , 戎葵 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たちあおい, あおい (blue, green, inexperienced, pale, unripe), じゅうき (appliance, furniture, heavy machine gun, invaluable person, small arms, treasure, utensil), はなあおい. (various references) | |
Manx | lus chasherick. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ollyhockhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | malva-rosa, alteia (marshmallow, marsh-mallow), lcea. (various references) | |
Romanian | nalbã de grãdinã, nalbã. (various references) | |
Russian | шток-роза розовая, штокроза. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | slezovača. (various references) | |
Spanish | malvarrosa, malva loca. (various references) | |
Swedish | stockros. (various references) | |
Turkish | gülhatmi (hibiscus). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | мальва (mallow). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hollyhock": hollyhocks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "hollyhock" (pronounced 'Hol"ly*hock'): Lohock, Mohock, suckanhock. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-h-k-l-l-o-o-y" | |
-3 letters: coolly. | |
-4 letters: choky, cholo, chook, colly, cooky, cooly, hollo, holly, hooch, hooky, hooly. | |
-5 letters: cloy, coho, coly, cook, cool, hock, holk, holy, hook, kohl, kolo, loch, lock, loco, look, yock, yolk. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-h-k-l-l-o-o-y" | |
+1 letter: hollyhocks. | |
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