Abutilon Definition

əbyo͝ot'län
noun
Any of a number of related plants or shrubs (genus Abutilon) of the mallow family, with showy flowers of white, yellow, or red.
Webster's New World

Any of the various tropical flowering plants, of the genus Abutilon, such as the flowering maple, Indian mallow, or Chinese lantern. [First attested in the late 16th century.]

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • genus Abutilon
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Malvaceae — broadleaf flowering plants in the mallow family found in the torrid and temperate zones.

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Other Word Forms of Abutilon

Noun

Singular:
abutilon
Plural:
abutilons

Origin of Abutilon

  • New Latin from Arabic aubūtīlūn (Indian mallow).[script?]

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  • From New Latin, from Arabic ابو طيلون (’abū ṭīlūn).

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Abutilon Sentence Examples

  • Climbers starring this month are many of the clematis, abutilon, climbing roses and the honeysuckle (lonicera japonica ).

  • Still, as in the laburnum just mentioned, in the variegated jasmine and in Abutilon Darwinii, in the copper beech and in the horse-chestnut, the influence of a variegated scion has occasionally shown itself in the production from the stock of variegated shoots.

  • The fibre known as China jute or Tien-tsin jute is the product of another plant, Abutilon Avicennae, a member of the Mallow family.

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