Bot. [a. Gr. κόρχορος name of a plant mentioned by Theophrastus.]
1. An extensive genus of Tiliaceæ, some of the species of which yield jute.
2. A popular name of Kerria japonica (N. O. Rosaceæ, Spiræidæ) of which the double-flowered variety is often trained as a wall plant for its profusion of yellow blossoms.
1759. trans. Adanson’s Voy. Senegal, 118. Higher up, there were corchorus’s, or Jew’s mallows.
1816. T. L. Peacock, in Dowden, Life Shelley, I. 513. The front wall of the vicarage was covered with corchorus in full flower.
