"malva" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the genus name, or in some Spanish or Portuguese contexts, from the Spanish or Portuguese word.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "malvas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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      "expansion": "malva (plural malvas)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Mallow subfamily plants",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Country Life, page 235",
          "text": "Another malva to note is M. moschata Alba, the white form of our native musk mallow.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Rosalind Creasy, Edible Mexican Garden, Tuttle Publishing, page 59",
          "text": "How to prepare: Cook the malvas the same way as amaranth and most other greens in Mexico are prepared[,] that is, briefly cooked with tomatoes or tomatillos and onions ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Frances Manos, Midwest Cottage Gardening, Big Earth Publishing, page 79",
          "text": "If your hollyhocks are attacked by rust, and if hibiscus flowers are too tropical looking and gaudy for your taste, investigate another branch of the mallow family — the malvas. [...] This spring I started seeds of another malva named M. sylvestris 'Mauritiana', and every seed came up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any plant of the genus Malva, a mallow."
      ],
      "id": "en-malva-en-noun-5MNCmU94",
      "links": [
        [
          "Malva",
          "Malva#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "mallow",
          "mallow"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "malva pudding"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "malva"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the genus name, or in some Spanish or Portuguese contexts, from the Spanish or Portuguese word.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "malvas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "malva (plural malvas)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "malva pudding"
    }
  ],
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        "en:Mallow subfamily plants"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Country Life, page 235",
          "text": "Another malva to note is M. moschata Alba, the white form of our native musk mallow.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Rosalind Creasy, Edible Mexican Garden, Tuttle Publishing, page 59",
          "text": "How to prepare: Cook the malvas the same way as amaranth and most other greens in Mexico are prepared[,] that is, briefly cooked with tomatoes or tomatillos and onions ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Frances Manos, Midwest Cottage Gardening, Big Earth Publishing, page 79",
          "text": "If your hollyhocks are attacked by rust, and if hibiscus flowers are too tropical looking and gaudy for your taste, investigate another branch of the mallow family — the malvas. [...] This spring I started seeds of another malva named M. sylvestris 'Mauritiana', and every seed came up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any plant of the genus Malva, a mallow."
      ],
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        [
          "Malva",
          "Malva#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "mallow",
          "mallow"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "malva"
}