different between lupine vs loosestrife

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin lup?nus, from lupus (“wolf”). Piecewise doublet of wolven, Latin lupus being a cognate of wolf and -ine being a doublet of -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu?.pa?n/
• Hyphenation: lu?pine
• Rhymes: -u?pa?n

Adjective

lupine (comparative more lupine, superlative most lupine)

1. Of, or pertaining to, the wolf.
2. Wolflike; wolfish.
3. Having the characteristics of a wolf.
4. Ravenous.

Synonyms

• (ravenous): ferocious, gluttonous, insatiable, rapacious, voracious

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See also

• canine
• vulpine

Etymology 2

See lupin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu?.p?n/

Noun

lupine (plural lupines)

1. US form of lupin (any plant of the genus Lupinus; an edible legume seed of one of these plants).

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Further reading

• Lupinus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lupinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Lupinus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Lupien, line up, line-up, lineup, pinule, unpile, up line, up-line, upline

Latin

Noun

lup?ne

1. vocative singular of lup?nus

English

Etymology

Calque of Ancient Greek ??????????? (lusimákheion), as if from ????? (lúsis, “loosening”) + ???? (mákh?, “battle, strife”).

Noun

loosestrife (countable and uncountable, plural loosestrifes)

1. Any of certain flowering plants of the genera Lythrum and Lysimachia, which are not closely related.
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91,

     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.

   • 2008, Allan M. Armitage, Herbaceous Perennial Plants, 3rd Edition, page 672,

     Most loosestrifes thrive in the northern part of the United States and Canada but only a few make good garden plants for the South.

   • 2013, Théodore de Saussure, Jane F. Hill (translator), Chemical Research on Plant Growth, [Recherches chimiques sur la Végétation], page 22,

     I grew some peas, loosestrifes, and fleabanes [“inules”] in profound darkness, beneath two identical receptacles filled with atmospheric air.

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