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purple loosestrifes

purple loosestrifes is the plural of purple loosestrife.

Meaning of purple loosestrife

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
    Synonyms:
    purple lythrum, spiked loosestrife, long purples, rainbow weed

Questions about purple loosestrifes

What is purple loosestrifes the plural of?
Purple loosestrifes is the plural of purple loosestrife.

Words near purple loosestrifes in the dictionary

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

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