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marsh mallows

marsh mallows is the plural of marsh mallow.

Meaning of marsh mallow

Noun

marsh mallow (plural marsh mallows)

  1. A European species of plant in the mallow family, Althaea officinalis, historically used medicinally and the source of what became the modern marshmallow confection (which no longer contains the plant).
    • Amongst the herbs to be administered when the charm was sung over him were a yew-berry, lupin, helenium, marsh mallow, dock elder, wormwood and strawberry leaves.1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 16
  2. Hibiscus moscheutos (crimsoneyed rosemallow, swamp rosemallow. eastern rosemallow)
  3. Malva sylvestris (common mallow)

Questions about marsh mallows

What is marsh mallows the plural of?
Marsh mallows is the plural of marsh mallow.

Words near marsh mallows in the dictionary

  1. marsh light
  2. marsh lights
  3. marsh lynx
  4. marsh lynxes
  5. marsh mallow
  6. marsh mallows
  7. marsh marigold
  8. marsh marigolds
  9. Marsh Mills
  10. marsh phlox
  11. marsh pink

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Adapted from Wiktionary: marsh mallows (page history and authors); marsh mallow (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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