PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • marsh herb with a long spike of purple flowers
   • originally of Europe but now rampant in eastern United States
   
   Synonym(s)
   • Lythrum salicaria (what does Lythrum salicaria mean?)
   • spiked loosestrife (what does spiked loosestrife mean?)
   
   Hypernyms(s) purple loosestrife is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • loosestrife (what does loosestrife mean?)