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Webster 1913 Edition
Loosestrife
Loose′strifeˊ
(loōs′strīfˊ)
, Noun.
(Bot.)
(a)
The name of several species of plants of the genus
Lysimachia
, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. (b)
Any species of the genus
Lythrum
, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray.
False loosestrife
, a plant of the genus
– Ludwigia
, which includes several species, most of which are found in the United States. Tufted loosestrife
, the plant
Lysimachia thyrsiflora
, found in the northern parts of the United States and in Europe. Gray.
Webster 1828 Edition
Loosestrife
LOOSESTRIFE
,Noun.
Definition 2025
loosestrife
loosestrife
English
purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
gooseneck loosestrife (Lysimachia clethroides)
Noun
loosestrife (plural loosestrifes)
- Any of certain flowering plants of the genera Lythrum and Lysimachia, which are not closely related.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91,
- He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.
- 2008, Allan M. Armitage, Herbaceous Perennial Plants, 3rd Edition, page 672,
- Most loosestrifes thrive in the northern part of the United States and Canada but only a few make good garden plants for the South.
- 2013, Théodore de Saussure, Jane F. Hill (translator), Chemical Research on Plant Growth, [Recherches chimiques sur la Végétation], page 22,
- I grew some peas, loosestrifes, and fleabanes [“inules”] in profound darkness, beneath two identical receptacles filled with atmospheric air.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91,
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Lysimachia
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