Definition of "loosestrife"
noun
countable and uncountable, plural loosestrifes
Any of certain flowering plants of the genera Lythrum and Lysimachia, which are not closely related.
Quotations
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.
1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91