swamp candles

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   North American plant with spikes of yellow flowers, found in wet places

   SynonymsLysimachia terrestris

   Broaderloosestrife

Questions about swamp candles

What does swamp candles mean?

swamp candles means "North American plant with spikes of yellow flowers, found in wet places".

What is another word for swamp candles?

Close synonyms include Lysimachia terrestris. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swamp candles a common word?

swamp candles is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.