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noun

Loosestrife n. (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.

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.

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Etymology of 'Loosestrife'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Loosestrife" Quotes from Famous Books

... cottages, and picturesque beer-houses with the vivid brewers' boards of blue and scarlet, and once a broad green and a church, and an expanse of some hundred houses or so. Then he came to a pebbly rivulet that emerged between clumps of sedge loosestrife and forget-me-nots under an arch of trees, and rippled across the road, and there he dismounted, longing to take off shoes and stockings—those stylish chequered stockings were now all dimmed with dust—and paddle his lean legs in the chuckling cheerful water. But instead he sat in a manly attitude, ...

— The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll • H. G. Wells

... and wanderers, both those who have no fortune and those who have failed to win it, dream of these cabin rows, these sweet-scented boreens with their 'banks of furze unprofitably gay,' these leaking thatches with the purple loosestrife growing in their ragged seams, and, looking backward across the distance of time and space, give the humble spot a tender thought, because after all it was in their ...

— Penelope's Irish Experiences • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... southern light broke in splinters on the dancing water, and was mirrored in reflected ripplings, silver-pale, tremulous, over the shadowy understems of grass and loosestrife on the opposite bank. "And I never gave you anything to drink after all!" said Laura after a long, companionable silence. "Why didn't ...

— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde

Words linked to "Loosestrife" : whorled loosestrife, loosestrife family, Lysimachia terrestris, creeping Jenny, purple loosestrife, fringed loosestrife, Lysimachia nemorum, garden loosestrife, moneywort, Lythrum salicaria, Lysimachia clethroides Duby, Lythrum hyssopifolia, Lysimachia vulgaris, Lysimachia quadrifolia, herbaceous plant, spiked loosestrife, genus Lythrum, creeping Charlie, subshrub, hyssop loosestrife, Lythrum, genus Lysimachia, Lysimachia ciliatum, Lysimachia, gooseneck loosestrife, suffrutex, yellow loosestrife, swamp candles, herb, Lysimachia nummularia