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Loosestrife

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of certain flowering plants of the genera Lythrum and Lysimachia, which are in different taxonomic families. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia wordnet
  3. 3
    any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum wordnet

Etymology

Calque of Ancient Greek λυσιμάχειον (lusimákheion), as if from λύσις (lúsis, “loosening”) + μάχη (mákhē, “battle, strife”).

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