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loose·strife
lus straIf
intended as translation of Greek lysimacheios loosestrife (as if from lysis act of loosing + machesthai to fight) — more at lysis
The first known use of loosestrife was in 1548
loose1 of 2adjective
not firmly fastened or securely attached
a loose tooth
no longer attached
a boat loose from its moorings
not tight-fitting
not shut in, tied up, or held back
a lion loose in the streets
not brought together in a bundle, container, or binding
loose sheets of pages
not dense or compact cloth of loose weave
loose dirt
not respectable : immoral
loose conduct
not tightly drawn or stretched : slack
not exact or careful
a loose guess
loose2 of 2verb
loosen sense 1
shoot entry 1 sense 1, fire
loose a volley
loosestrifenoun
any of a genus of herbs that are related to the primroses and have leafy stems and yellow or white flowers
any of a genus of herbs including some with showy spikes of purple flowers
1 The loosestrife is his, and the arrow-head: his the distant moan of the weir; his are the glories, amber and scarlet and silver, of the sunset-haunted surface.
2 Vegetable matter, such as peppermint, loosestrife, senna, &c., requires to be dried before it is powdered.
3 Inside, a handsome bouquet proves to be mostly made of weeds: purple loosestrife, bishop’s weed and “bindweed that mimicked morning glory.”
4 Purple loosestrife is quickly recognizable, thanks to its upright purple flower spikes that bloom from midsummer through fall.
5 Our slender, symmetrical, common loosestrife, with its whorls of leaves and little star-shaped blossoms on thread-like pedicels at regular intervals up the stem, is not even distantly related to the wonderful Purple Loosestrife.
6 When the program was launched, purple loosestrife was flourishing “in hundreds of locations” around the state, Ellis said.
7 In a small earthen pot on the table, the bouquet of yellow loosestrife, purple coneflowers, and lacy ferns cast a shadow against the wall in the dimming light.
8 The targets of the herbicide are phragmites and purple loosestrife, both classified as noxious weeds.
9 Yellow loosestrife is rising, thick comfrey stands at the very edge; the sandpipers run where the shore is free from bushes.
10 Examples include the introduction of Caulerpa taxifolia into the Mediterranean, the introduction of oat species into the California grasslands, and the introduction of privet, kudzu, and purple loosestrife to North America.
11 Invasive purple loosestrife plants grow more rapidly, and presumably reproduce earlier, than loosestrife within the plants’ native range.
12 A variety of the loosestrife herb.
千屈莱科的一种草本植物。
13 Under the loosestrife and alder we roam To seek and search for the halcyon's home.
14 And really," Guy went on, as already the banks of yellow loosestrife were become banks of long-purples, "there is no reason why for us in a way this river should not flow on for ever.
15 Henna, hen′a, n. a small Oriental shrub of the loosestrife family, with fragrant white flowers: a pigment made from the shrub for dyeing the nails and hair.
16 On the other hand, some plants had the reputation of attracting serpents, one of these being the moneywort or creeping loosestrife, with which they were said to heal themselves when wounded.
17 The Montlake Fill became drier land overgrown by blackberries and loosestrife, and was later reclaimed.
18 “It started out with purple loosestrife and then phragmites that has been an ongoing cycle of spray and burn.”
19 A single occurrence of, say, purple loosestrife, does not an invasion make.
20 Purple loosestrife, an invasive flowering plant, is sprouting up — a problem that Rothman said will be resolved by galerucella beetles that were released in the area in the 1990s and that eat purple loosestrife.