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Gallow vs Mallow - What's the difference?

gallow | mallow |

As a verb gallow

is (obsolete) to frighten.

As a noun mallow is

any of a group of flowering plants in several genera of the taxonomic family malvaceae'', especially of the genus ''malva several species are edible by humans.

gallow

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) to frighten
  • * 1605': The wrathful skies / '''Gallow the very wanderers of the dark / And make them keep their caves. — William Shakespeare, ''King Lear III.ii

    • See also

    * gallows

    mallow

    English

    (wikipedia mallow)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of a group of flowering plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae'', especially of the genus ''Malva . Several species are edible by humans.

    • Derived terms

    * Indian mallow * Jew's mallow * marshmallow