LYSIMACHIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lysimachia mean? 

• LYSIMACHIA (noun)
  The noun LYSIMACHIA has 1 sense:

1. loosestrife: a cosmopolitan genus found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; inclined to be invasive

  Familiarity information: LYSIMACHIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYSIMACHIA (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Lysimachia; Lysimachia

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)