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Meanings of genus lysimachia in English

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lysimachia
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genus lysimachia

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

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        Examples for "Lysimachia"
        Examples for "Lysimachia"
        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...
        Translations for genus lysimachia
        Portuguese
        lysimachia