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hollyhock

Syllables: hol·ly·hockUK/ˈhɒlihɒk//ˈhɑlihɑk/

hollyhock noun: any of several flowering plants of the genus Alcea in the Malvaceae family.

hollyhock: any of several flowering plants of the genus Alcea in the Malvaceae family
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Noun

hollyhock (plural hollyhocks)

  1. Any of several flowering plants of the genus Alcea in the Malvaceae family.
    • No cottage in Coughton boasted taller hollyhocks, nor finer Michaelmas daisies in the autumn than Dame Magdalen’s almshouses; […]1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter X, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 227–228

hollyhock meaning in Urdu

hollyhock in Urdu

ریشہ ختمی

Forms of hollyhock

pluralhollyhocks

Origin of hollyhock

From Middle English holihocke, holyhokke, holihoc, from holi (“holy”) + hocke, hokke, hoc (“mallow”) (from Old English hoc (“marsh mallow”). The modern hollyhock was probably unknown in England until the 15th century, so usage before then no doubt referred to some other mallow. Apparently so called for being brought from the Holy Land; compare an old name for it in Medieval Latin cauli Sancti Cuthberti (“St. Cuthbert's cole”).

Words formed from hollyhock

  • Antwerp hollyhock
  • Australian hollyhock
  • bristly hollyhock
  • common hollyhock
  • Cretan-hollyhock
  • hollyhocked
  • Hollyhock leaf curl virus
  • hollyhock-leaf pelargonium
  • hollyhock mallow
  • hollyhock-tree
  • Hollyhock yellow vein alphasatellite
  • Hollyhock yellow vein mosaic virus
  • long-sepal wild hollyhock (Iliamna longisepala
  • mountain hollyhock
  • sea hollyhock
  • streambank wild hollyhock
  • wild hollyhock

Questions about hollyhock

What does hollyhock mean?
Hollyhock means any of several flowering plants of the genus Alcea in the Malvaceae family.
What is hollyhock in Urdu?
Hollyhock in Urdu is ریشہ ختمی. See Hollyhock meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is hollyhock?
Hollyhock is a noun.
How do you pronounce hollyhock?
Hollyhock is pronounced /ˈhɑlihɑk/ (US).
What is the plural of hollyhock?
The plural of hollyhock is hollyhocks.

Words near hollyhock in the dictionary

  1. Hollydeen
  2. Hollye
  3. Hollyfield
  4. Hollyfields
  5. Hollyhand
  6. hollyhock
  7. hollyhocked
  8. hollyhocks
  9. hollylike
  10. Hollymount
  11. Hollyshit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hollyhock (page history and authors); hollyhock (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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