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nounany plant of the genus Hibiscustype of:
Definition that contains hibiscus
- hibiscus any plant of the genus Hibiscus
- gumbo tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
- okra tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
- epicalyx a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus
- wax mallow any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers
- lady's-finger tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
- abelmosk bushy herb of tropical Asia grown for its yellow or pink to scarlet blooms that resemble the hibiscus
- radyera farragei southern and western Australian shrub with unlobed or shallowly lobed toothed leaves and purple flowers; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
- hibiscus esculentus tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
- deccan hemp fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus