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lysimachia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lysimachia has 1 sense
- lysimachia(n = noun.plant) genus lysimachia - loosestrife: a cosmopolitan genus found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; inclined to be invasive; Array is a kind of dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus
is a member of family primulaceae, primrose family, primulaceae
CIDE DICTIONARY
lysimachia, n.
a cosmopolitan genus of plants, including some of the loosestrifes, found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; they are inclined to be invasive. [WordNet 1.5]
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