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Loosestrife

The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color.

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Herb 76% connected

A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.

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Moneywort 76% connected

A trailing plant (Lysimachia Nummularia), with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils.

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plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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(botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower

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any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by s…

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Flowering plant noun · 86% connection

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Germ tube noun · 86% connection

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Lip noun · 86% connection

(botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx

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