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μα^λάχη [λα^], ἡ,
A.mallow, Malva silvestris, Hes.Op.41, Batr.161, Pherecr.131.1 (pl.), Thphr.HP7.7.2,7.8.1, Mosch.3.99, etc.; “σιτεῖσθαι ἀντὶ μὲν ἄρτων μαλάχης πτόρθους” Ar.Pl.544:—also μολόχη , Epich.153, Antiph.158, Dsc.2.118 (cod. F).
2. μ. ἀγρία, = ἀλθαία 1, Thphr.HP9.15.5, Ps.-Dsc.3.146.
3. μ. κηπευτή tree-mallow, Lavatera arborea, Dsc.2.118, cf. Gal.6.628; “μ. ἀποδενδρουμένη” Thphr. HP1.3.2; “ἄνθρακες -ης” Xenocr. ap. Orib.2.58.48. (Perh. fr. μαλάσσω, because of its laxative properties, cf. Dsc. l.c., Plin.HN20.221; the relation to Lat. malva, Engl. mallow is uncertain.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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