Yellow loosestrife is edible.
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Loosestrife
Synonyms for "loosestrife"
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31 translations across 16 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- λυσιμάχειον noun (Lysimachia)
Bulgarian
1 entries- лени́вче noun (Lysimachia)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 千屈菜 noun (Lythrum)
- 珍珠菜 noun (Lysimachia)
Dutch
2 entries- kattenstaart noun (Lythrum)
- wederik noun (Lysimachia)
Finnish
2 entries- alpi noun (Lysimachia)
- rantakukka noun (Lythrum)
French
2 entries- lysimaque noun (Lysimachia)
- salicaire noun (Lythrum)
German
2 entries- Blutweiderich noun (Lythrum)
- Gilbweiderich noun (Lysimachia)
Greek
2 entries- λυσιμάχειο noun (Lysimachia)
- λύθρο noun (Lythrum)
Icelandic
1 entries- útlagi noun (Lysimachia)
Polish
2 entries- krwawnica noun (Lythrum)
- tojeść noun (Lysimachia)
Russian
3 entries- вербе́йник noun (Lysimachia)
- дербе́нник noun (Lythrum)
- подбере́жник noun (Lythrum)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- mètīlj noun (Lysimachia)
- mètīljka noun (Lysimachia)
- protívak noun (Lysimachia)
- мѐтӣљ noun (Lysimachia)
Swedish
1 entries- lysing noun (Lysimachia)
Turkish
1 entries- karga otu noun (Lysimachia)
Vietnamese
2 entries- thiên khuất noun (Lythrum)
- trân châu noun (Lysimachia)
Welsh
1 entries- trewyn noun (Lysimachia)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
Most loosestrifes thrive in the northern part of the United States and Canada but only a few make good garden plants for the South.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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