loosestrifes

Meaning of loosestrifes

plural noun

any of a number of tall plants which bear upright spikes of flowers and grow by water and in wet ground.

mid 16th century: from loose + strife, taking the Greek name lusimakheion (actually from Lusimakhos, the name of its discoverer) to be directly from luein ‘undo’ + makhē ‘battle’.

Information about loosestrifes

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of loosestrifes is: loosestrife.
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Hyphenation of loosestrifes

looses-trifes

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 12 chars.
  • loosestrifes is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with loosestrifes

preifes, fifes, afterlifes, highlifes, lowlifes, nightlifes, wildlifes, jackknifes, knifes, nifes, strifes, wasterifes, wastrifes, huswifes, midwifes, wifes

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