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UK
/lˈuːsɪstɹˌaɪf/
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[ US /ˈɫuˌstɹaɪf, ˈɫusˌstɹaɪf/ ]
[ US /ˈɫuˌstɹaɪf, ˈɫusˌstɹaɪf/ ]
NOUN
- any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum
- any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia
How To Use loosestrife In A Sentence
- Objective To winnow and establish the optimal condition for ultrasonic extraction of total flavone from christina loosestrife herb.
- When the native species is suppressed, the area becomes a monoculture of purple loosestrife.
- Troublemakers: scapegrace ` wild and unprincipled, 'rakehell ` lewd and dissolute,' scarebabe (- bairn in Scotland), drawblood, flingbrand, blowcoal, makebate (as in ` debate '), stirpassion and stirstrife (why the wildflower loosestrife is accused of this propensity I know not), spitfire and shitefire VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
- Also rabbit-foot clover, mullein, day-lilies, and the first of the vexed purple loosestrife of the season. Sunday roadkill report
- Other locally common tannin-rich plants include blackberry, raspberry, rose, lady's mantle, agrimony, meadowsweet, and strawberry (all members of the rose family), geraniums, purple loosestrife, and sumacs.
- The first impression is of pink phlox, purple loosestrife, clematis, pelargoniums, roses and day lilies.
- The garden is actually getting rather tired as the summer progresses, but I still have yellow loosestrife, some alstroemeria, alchemilla mollis (ladies' mantle), meadow-sweet, astrantia (this year for the first time in more than one colour), red and white valerian, lavender, veronica and butterfly blue scabious. Weekend pleasures
- Many home-grown substitutes were used in Revolutionary times for tea: ribwort was a favorite one; strawberry and currant leaves, sage, thorough-wort, and "Liberty Tea," made from the four-leaved loosestrife. Home Life in Colonial Days
- A variety of the loosestrife herb .
- Purple loosestrife can grow to 3-9 feet tall with several, square stalks per plant.