purple loosestrife

Definitions

A semi-aquatic herbaceous plant, Lythrum salicaria, having long spikes of purple flowers, native to Eurasia, considered invasive in North America and New Zealand.

countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Purple loosestrife arrived early, shaking luxuriant tangled locks along the edge of the mirror whence its own⟳ face⟳ laughed back at it.”

“From the crest we could see⟳ the crest of the next, and upon it three bowers side by side, decked as my own⟳ had been with twined lupine, purple loosestrife, and white meadow rue.”

“They leave⟳ him upon the New Castle Road, standing among the late purple Loosestrife by the Ditch, glancing upward from time to time, waving his Arm,— then growing still, appearing to listen⟳.”

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