whorled loosestrife

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   common North American yellow-flowered plant

   SynonymsLysimachia quadrifolia

   Broaderloosestrife

Questions about whorled loosestrife

What does whorled loosestrife mean?

whorled loosestrife means "common North American yellow-flowered plant".

What is another word for whorled loosestrife?

Close synonyms include Lysimachia quadrifolia. 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 whorled loosestrife a common word?

whorled loosestrife 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.