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Definition of Genus lysimachia
1. Noun. Loosestrife: a cosmopolitan genus found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; inclined to be invasive.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Primulaceae, Primrose Family, Primulaceae
Member holonyms: Loosestrife
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lysimachia
Literary usage of Genus lysimachia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1867)
"The genus lysimachia (Loosestrife), though not very brilliant, contains a few
species of considerable elegance. Indeed, the L. racemosa, ..."
2. An Introduction to Systematic and Physiological Botany by Thomas Nuttall (1827)
"... the genus Lysimachia, or Loose-strife, being the type of comparison, and a
genus of which you will hardly fail to meet with some species or other, ..."
3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Francis Wall Oliver, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"... the bottom of the hollow perianth-leaf in the flower of the Lady's-Slipper
Orchid (Cypripedium). In several species of the genus Lysimachia (Lysimachia ..."
4. Pamphlets on Forestry in Hawaii (1911)
"These, together with a plant belonging to the genus Lysimachia, have been described
by CX Forbes of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, in the Occasional Papers of ..."
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