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Definition of 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 Lysimachia
Literary usage of Lysimachia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ridpath's History of the World: Being an Account of the Principal Events in by John Clark Ridpath (1910)
"The murderer at once repaired to lysimachia, and announcing himself as the avenger
of their late king's death, seized the throne and held it for the space ..."
2. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Horticultural Society of London (1846)
"lysimachia CANDIDA.* R. FORTUNE. Raised from the soil contained in one of the
boxes sent from China by Mr. Fortune, April 6, 1846. This is a dwarf, compact, ..."
3. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"Here also occurs a creeping species of lysimachia, together with Lycopods, and
other cryptogams, ..."
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