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GENUS LYSIMACHIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Loosestrife: a cosmopolitan genus found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; inclined to be invasive
Synonyms:
genus Lysimachia; Lysimachia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Lysimachia" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "genus Lysimachia"):
loosestrife (any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia)
Holonyms ("genus Lysimachia" is a member of...):
family Primulaceae; primrose family; Primulaceae (a dicotyledonous family of the order Primulales with a regular flower; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)
