Loosestrife - English meaning
Loosestrife – definitions in English dictionary
nounAny of a number of tall plants which bear upright spikes of flowers and grow by water and in wet ground.
Usage examples:
Purple loosestrife can grow to 3-9 feet tall with several, square stalks per plant.
nounOne of a number of different plants, some with tall purple or yellow flowers, that grow wild and in gardens. some types cause problems in areas where they do not grow naturally
Usage examples:
Native flowers are being out-competed by purple loosestrife., one good thing about loosestrife is t…
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Word origin
mid 16th century: from loose + strife, taking the Greek name lusimakheion (actually from Lusimakhos, the name of its discoverer) to be directly from luein ‘undo’ + makhē ‘battle’.
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