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loosestrife family
noun
herbs and shrubs and small trees with pink or purple flowers
Syn: ↑Lythraceae, ↑family Lythraceae
Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family
Member Holonyms: ↑Myrtales, ↑order Myrtales, ↑Thymelaeales, ↑order Thymelaeales
Member Meronyms: ↑Lythrum, ↑genus Lythrum, ↑Lagerstroemia, ↑genus Lagerstroemia

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noun
: lythraceae

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the plant family Lythraceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having usually opposite or whorled, simple leaves, clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the crape myrtle, loosestrifes of the genus Lythrum, and the henna shrub.

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loosestrife family,
a group of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees most common in tropical America, and including some species often grown as ornamentals, such as the crape myrtle, henna, and purple loosestrife.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.