Lysimachia

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Lysimachia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Primulaceae – many of the plants called loosestrifes and their relatives.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids – clades; Ericales – order; Primulaceae – family; Myrsinoideae – subfamily

• (genus): Lysimachia vulgaris (yellow loosestrife) – type species; Lysimachia acroadenia, Lysimachia arvensis (scarlet pimpernel), Lysimachia barystachys (Manchurian yellow loosestrife), Lysimachia capillipes, Lysimachia ciliata (fringed loosestrife), (Lysimachia clethroides (gooseneck loosestrife), Lysimachia davurica (Manchurian yellow loosestrife), Lysimachia foemina (blue pimpernel, Lysimachia maritima (sea milkwort), Lysimachia monelli (blue pimpernel), Lysimachia foenum-graecum, Lysimachia leucantha, Lysimachia nemorum (yellow pimpernel), Lysimachia nummularia (moneywort), Lysimachia punctata (dotted loosestrife, yellow loosestrife), Lysimachia quadrifolia (crosswort, whorled loosestrife), Lysimachia remyi (rockface yellow loosestrife), Lysimachia tenella (bog pimpernel), Lysimachia thyrsiflora (tufted loosestrife) – selected other species

• Paralysimachia

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λῡσῐμᾰ́χειᾰ (Lūsĭmắkheiă).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [lyː.sɪ.maˈkʰiː.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [li.s̬i.maˈkiː.a]

Lȳsimachīa f sg (genitive Lȳsimachīae); first declension

1. a town of Chersonesus in Thrace

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Lȳsimachienses

• “Lysimachia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Lysimachia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Lysimachia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Lysimachia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly