Definition of Genus Lysimachia

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

Exact synonyms: Lysimachia
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Primulaceae, Primrose Family, Primulaceae
Member holonyms: Loosestrife

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lysimachia

genus Lycopersicon
genus Lycopersicum
genus Lycopodium
genus Lycopus
genus Lycosa
genus Lyginopteris
genus Lygodium
genus Lygus
genus Lymantria
genus Lynx
genus Lyonia
genus Lyrurus
genus Lysichiton
genus Lysichitum
genus Lysiloma
genus Lysimachia (current term)
genus Lythrum
genus Macaca
genus Macadamia
genus Machaeranthera
genus Macleaya
genus Maclura
genus Macowanites
genus Macrocephalon
genus Macrocheira
genus Macroclemys
genus Macrodactylus
genus Macronectes
genus Macropus
genus Macrothelypteris

Literary usage of Genus Lysimachia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1867)
"The genus lysimachia (Loosestrife), though not very brilliant, contains a few species of considerable elegance. Indeed, the L. racemosa, ..."

2. An Introduction to Systematic and Physiological Botany by Thomas Nuttall (1827)
"... the genus Lysimachia, or Loose-strife, being the type of comparison, and a genus of which you will hardly fail to meet with some species or other, ..."

3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Francis Wall Oliver, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"... the bottom of the hollow perianth-leaf in the flower of the Lady's-Slipper Orchid (Cypripedium). In several species of the genus Lysimachia (Lysimachia ..."

4. Pamphlets on Forestry in Hawaii (1911)
"These, together with a plant belonging to the genus Lysimachia, have been described by CX Forbes of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, in the Occasional Papers of ..."

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