abutilon

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From New Latin [Term?], from Arabic أَبُو طِيلُون (ʔabū ṭīlūn, “Indian mallow”).

Abutilon graveolens, W. & A. — Southern Arabia, J. Theodore (James Theodore) Bent
It hung like the flower of the cream-white, pendulous abutilon, with pollen of yellow stars beaded in dew and throwing off a rich, delicate, aromatic odor, smelt nowhere on earth save in a cottonfield, damp with early dew and warmed by the rays of the rising sun. — The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills, John Trotwood Moore

genus Abutilon

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