Althaea is the Latin rendering of Greek ''Althaia'', which may be related to Greek ''althos'' "healing". It may refer to:
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Althaea (mythology), the daughter of Thestius and mother of Meleager
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''Althaea'' (plant), a genus of up to a dozen species of perennial herbs, native to Europe and western Asia, that includes the marshmallow plant
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119 Althaea, an asteroid
*Althaea, the name of several
nymph
A nymph ( grc, νύμφη, nýmphē, el, script=Latn, nímfi, label= Modern Greek; , ) in ancient Greek folklore is a minor female nature deity. Different from Greek goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as personifications of nature, are ...
s in Greek mythology
*"Shrub Althea", "Shrub Althaea" and "Rose of Althea" are names applied to
Hibiscus syriacus
''Hibiscus syriacus'' is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is native to Korea, and south-central and southeast China, but widely introduced elsewhere, including much of Asia. It was given the epithet ''syriacus'' b ...
, which is South Korea's national flower
Althea, an English variation of the Greek name, may refer to:
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Althea, a female first name
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Althea, Missouri, a ghost town in the US
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Althea Racing
Althea Racing is a motorcycle racing team based in Civita Castellana, Italy. For 2019, two versions of the team operate within the World Superbike Championship, as Moriwaki Althea Honda Team having two riders in conjunction with HRC, , Italian-based motorcycle road racing
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EUFOR Althea
Operation Althea, formally the European Union Force Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUFOR), is a military deployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina to oversee the military implementation of the Dayton Agreement. It is the successor to NATO's SFOR and IFOR. T ...
, a European Union military operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
*"Althea", a
Grateful Dead song
*Althea, a fictional pulsar from the science-fiction novel
''The Hercules Text'' by Jack McDevitt
*, a merchantman launched in 1802 at Calcutta that was wrecked in 1812
*U.S. Navy ships of the name include:
**, a collier that served during the 1862
**, a tugboat that served during the Civil War
**, a motorboat built in 1907
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Althea (mesh network software), a
mesh networking Linux software distribution based on OpenWRT
Altea, a Spanish variation of the Greek name, may refer to:
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Altea, a town in Spain
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