"purple loosestrife" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: purple loosestrifes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} purple loosestrife (countable and uncountable, plural purple loosestrifes)
  1. A semi-aquatic herbaceous plant, Lythrum salicaria, having long spikes of purple flowers, native to Eurasia, considered invasive in North America and New Zealand. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Myrtales order plants Synonyms (Lythrum salicaria): purple lythrum, spiked loosestrife, long purples (english: disputed) [literary] Translations (Lythrum salicaria): salicària [feminine] (Catalan), grote kattenstaart [masculine] (Dutch), rantakukka (Finnish), Blutweiderich [masculine] (German), 털부처꽃 (teolbucheokkot) (Korean), răchitan [masculine] (Romanian), fackelblomster [neuter] (Swedish), llysiau'r milwr coch [plural] (Welsh)

Inflected forms

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