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Meanings of Lysimachia in English

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кизляк
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lysimachia
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apochoris
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Genus of plants.

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        genus lysimachia

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

              lysimachia
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              Examples for "loosestrife"
              Examples for "loosestrife"
              1
              On the banks are flowers-yarrow ,meadow-sweet ,willowherb, loosestrife, and lady's bed-straw.
              The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure S...
              2
              This makeshift of a beverage was made of the four-leaved loosestrife.
              Sabbath in Puritan New England
              3
              Purple loosestrife is surely one of the worst invaders the American landscape has seen.
              Wicked plants
              4
              Darwin wasn't the only one who was mad about loosestrife.
              Wicked plants
              5
              Of winding woodways where the loosestrife nods
              Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919.
              Usage of Lysimachia in English
              1
              He had seized on Lysimachia, after dislodging the praetor and garrison of the Aetolians.
              The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36
              2
              On Lysimachia H. Muller 'Nature' September 1873 page 433.
              The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species
              3
              There Lysimachia was taken from the Aetolian garrison, and Perinthus, which stood in the relation of clientship to Byzantium, was likewise occupied.
              The History of Rome, Book III / From the Union of Italy to the S...
              4
              The soldiers of Antiochus, in conformity to a stipulation, were escorted, through Macedonia and Thrace, by a body of Macedonians, and conducted to Lysimachia.
              The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36
              5
              As Seleucus stopped to sacrifice at a celebrated altar near Lysimachia in Thrace, Ptolemy treacherously assassinated him by stabbing him in the back (280).
              A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
              6
              Lysimachia foenum-graecum has been used as an oriental medicine with anti-inflammatory effect.
              Pubmed
              7
              Lysimachia vulgaris, Euphrasia officinalis, Rhinanthus crista-galli, and Viola tricolor come under this head.
              The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species
              8
              Hereabouts are the flowers, tall and plenty-foxglovesand mullein, such as we have at home, and loosestrife (lysimachia), both the yellow and the purple.
              The Fool Errant / Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley,...
              Translations for Lysimachia
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              lysimachia
              Lysimachia through the time