loosestrife

n. [植] 珍珠菜,千屈菜 a. 千屈科植物的

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loosestrifes 复数 loosestrifes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of certain flowering plants of the genera Lythrum and Lysimachia, which are in different taxonomic families.

    千屈菜

    珍珠菜

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    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.

    2013, Théodore de Saussure, Jane F. Hill (translator), Chemical Research on Plant Growth, [Recherches chimiques sur la Végétation], page 22, I grew some peas, loosestrifes, and fleabanes [“inules”] in profound darkness, beneath two identical receptacles filled with atmospheric air.

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herb subshrub suffrutex

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creeping Charlie creeping Jenny gooseneck loosestrife moneywort purple loosestrife

相关短语

loosestrife borer loosestrife borers purple loosestrife 千屈菜 gooseneck loosestrife [网络] 鹅颈松动

词源

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

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