Any of a group of flowering plants in severalgenera of the taxonomic familyMalvaceae, especially of the genusMalva. Several species are edible by humans.
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. Who cut upmallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
1684,John Dryden, “FromHorace, Epode 2”, inThe Second Part of Miscellany Poems[1], 4th edition, London: Jacob Tonson, page79:
NotHeathpout, or the rarer Bird, / WhichPhasis, orIonia yields, / More pleasing Morsels would afford / Than the fat Olives of my Fields; / ThanShards orMallows for the Pot, / That keep the loosen’d Body sound, / Or than the Lamb that falls by Lot, / To the just Guardian of my Ground.
1840,Robert Browning,Sordello, Book IV, inSordello; Strafford; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1863, p. 112,[2]
The thoroughfares were overrun with weed
— Docks, quitchgrass, loathlymallows no man plants.
The Time Traveller paused, put his hand into his pocket, and silently placed two withered flowers, not unlike very large whitemallows, upon the little table. Then he resumed his narrative.
'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
2017 October 19, “Hallohallo”, inCircuit Break,Konami:
Hallo Hallo, brain of tallow, / Guts are gone, noggin’s hollow. / Seeking sweets and marshingmallows, / Watch your back, and your candy sack.
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