Jew's mallow

English

Noun

Jew’s mallow

  1. An annual herb (Corchorus olitorius) cultivated in Syria and Egypt as a potherb, and in India for its fiber.
  2. Kerria japonica in the rose family, cultivated as an ornamental.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Jew's mallow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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