loosestrife
English edit
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Etymology edit
Calque of Ancient Greek λυσιμάχειον (lusimákheion), as if from λύσις (lúsis, “loosening”) + μάχη (mákhē, “battle, strife”).
Noun edit
loosestrife (countable and uncountable, plural loosestrifes)
- Any of certain flowering plants of the genera Lythrum and Lysimachia, which are not closely related.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91,
- He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.
- 2008, Allan M. Armitage, Herbaceous Perennial Plants, 3rd edition, page 672:
- Most loosestrifes thrive in the northern part of the United States and Canada but only a few make good garden plants for the South.
- 2013, Théodore de Saussure, Jane F. Hill (translator), Chemical Research on Plant Growth, [Recherches chimiques sur la Végétation], page 22,
- I grew some peas, loosestrifes, and fleabanes [“inules”] in profound darkness, beneath two identical receptacles filled with atmospheric air.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91,
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
- false loosestrife (Ludwigia spp.)
- fringed loosestrife (Lysimachia ciliata)
- gooseneck loosestrife (Lysimachia clethroides)
- loosestrife borer (Papaipema lysimachiae)
- purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
- spatulaleaf loosestrife (Lythrum portula)
- threebract loosestrife (Lythrum tribracteatum)
- yellow loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris)
Translations edit
Lythrum
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Lysimachia
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