a tall Eurasian plant of the mallow family, with large showy flowers 蜀葵
Alcea rosea, family Malvaceae 拉丁名Alcea rosea,锦葵科
语源
Middle English: from holy + obsolete hock 'mallow', of unknown origin. It originally denoted the marsh mallow which has medicinal uses (hence, perhaps, the use of 'holy'); the current sense dates from the mid 16th cent