Etymograph

English

globe mallow

From globe + mallow.

A compound of globe + mallow

Latin globus ‘any round object’

Old French globe

Middle French globe

Middle English globe

English globe

Latin malva

Old English mealwe

Middle English malwe

English mallow

The story

The flowers of both kinds are globe-shaped just before the petals fully open.

Today it means

noun Any of many North American plants of the genus Sphaeralcea in the mallow family, Malvaceae.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / globe mallow