loosestrife

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of certain flowering plants of the genera Lythrum and Lysimachia, which are in different taxonomic families. countable,uncountable
    — 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91, He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.

词形变化

loosestrifes plural

词源

Calque of Ancient Greek λυσιμάχειον (lusimákheion), as if from λύσις (lúsis, “loosening”) + μάχη (mákhē, “battle, strife”).
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