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    LYSIMACHIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Loosestrife: a cosmopolitan genus found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; inclined to be invasiveplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Lysimachia; Lysimachia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("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 "Lysimachia"):

    loosestrife (any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia)

    Holonyms ("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)

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