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purple loosestrife

purple loosestrife noun: a semi-aquatic herbaceous plant, Lythrum salicaria, having long spikes of purple flowers, native to Eurasia, considered invasive in North America and New Zealand.

purple loosestrife: a semi-aquatic herbaceous plant, Lythrum salicaria, having long spikes of purple flowers, native to...
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Noun

purple loosestrife (countable and uncountable, plural purple loosestrifes)

  1. A semi-aquatic herbaceous plant, Lythrum salicaria, having long spikes of purple flowers, native to Eurasia, considered invasive in North America and New Zealand.
    • Purple loosestrife arrived early, shaking luxuriant tangled locks along the edge of the mirror whence its own face laughed back at it.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, “The Wild Wood”, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 48
    • From the crest we could see the crest of the next, and upon it three bowers side by side, decked as my own had been with twined lupine, purple loosestrife, and white meadow rue.1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter LI, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 310
    Synonyms:
    purple lythrum, spiked loosestrife, long purples, rainbow weed

purple loosestrife meaning in Tamil

purple loosestrife in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Synonyms of purple loosestrife

Forms of purple loosestrife

pluralpurple loosestrifes

Questions about purple loosestrife

What does purple loosestrife mean?
Purple loosestrife means a semi-aquatic herbaceous plant, Lythrum salicaria, having long spikes of purple flowers, native to Eurasia, considered invasive in North America and New Zealand.
What is purple loosestrife in Tamil?
Purple loosestrife in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Purple loosestrife meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is purple loosestrife?
Purple loosestrife is a noun.
What is the plural of purple loosestrife?
The plural of purple loosestrife is purple loosestrifes.

Words near purple loosestrife in the dictionary

  1. purple judges
  2. purple leaf sand cherries
  3. purple leaf sand cherry
  4. purple lettuce
  5. purple lettuces
  6. purple loosestrife
  7. purple loosestrifes
  8. purple marshlocks
  9. purple martin
  10. purple martins
  11. purple meadowrue

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