- a sweetened paste or confection made from the mucilaginous root of the marsh mallow.
- a similar confection, usually soft and spongy, made from gum arabic or gelatin, sugar, corn syrup, and flavoring.
- an Old World mallow, Althaea officinalis, having pink flowers, found in marshy places.
- the rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
- a sweet of a spongy texture containing gum arabic or gelatine, sugar, etc
- a sweetened paste or confection made from the root of the marsh mallow
- a malvaceous plant, Althaea officinalis, that grows in salt marshes and has pale pink flowers. The roots yield a mucilage formerly used to make marshmallows
- US and Canadian another name for rose mallow (def. 1)
