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Definition of Loosestrifes
1. loosestrife [n] - See also: loosestrife
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loosestrifes
Literary usage of Loosestrifes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"... pass the summer under a north wall, and kept cool. They are propagated by
dividing the crowns, which is best done in autumn. loosestrifes Natural Order ..."
2. The Gardeners' Dictionary: Describing the Plants, Fruits and Vegetables by George W. Johnson (1877)
"... black- blood ; the prevailing purple colour of the flowers. Nat ord., loosestrifes
... loosestrifes ..."
3. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The loosestrifes and the false loosestrifes grow for the most part in wet places
or in fields, and may be recognized by their bright yellow, primrose-like ..."
4. Reports of the Survey (1899)
"A most remarkable peculiarity of the loosestrifes is the formation of very
extraordinary structures in the cells of the outer seed-coats. ..."
5. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1876)
"OUR BORDER FLOWERS—loosestrifes. AMONG the flowers of autumn none stand out more
prominently than the f unity of loosestrifes. ..."
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