Usually means: Invasive plant, disrupts aquatic ecosystems.
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  1. purple loosestrife: Merriam-Webster
  2. purple loosestrife: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. purple loosestrife: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. purple loosestrife: Collins English Dictionary
  5. purple loosestrife: Vocabulary.com
  6. purple loosestrife: Wiktionary
  7. purple loosestrife: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. purple loosestrife: Dictionary.com
  9. Purple loosestrife: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. purple loosestrife: Rhymezone
  11. purple loosestrife: FreeDictionary.org
  12. purple loosestrife: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. purple loosestrife: TheFreeDictionary.com

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Purple Loosestrife, Purple Loosestrife: Botanical Name listing of Plants

(Note: See purple_loosestrifes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (purple loosestrife)

noun:  A semi-aquatic herbaceous plant, Lythrum salicaria, having long spikes of purple flowers, native to Eurasia, considered invasive in North America and New Zealand.

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