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les jussies

English translation: primrose-willow, water-purslane, or water-primrose

23:03 Sep 6, 2019
French to English translations [PRO]
Botany / (dans un brevet) TRAITEMENT ALGICIDE DE L'EAU
French term or phrase: les jussies
Autres macrophytes rivulaires amphibies introduites : les Jussies (amérique du Sud): Ludwigia peploïdes (jussie rampante), L.grandiflora (jussie à grande fleur)
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Italy
Local time: 15:45
English translation:primrose-willow, water-purslane, or water-primrose
Explanation:
See http://www.plantes-invasives-lupin.eu/download/telechargemen... (this shows that "les jussies" belong to the Ludwigia genus) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwigia_(plant) (this shows the common English names for the Ludwigia genus plants
Many other similar sites can be found by appropriate searches.
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Marco Solinas
Local time: 06:45
Grading comment
merci!
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2 +4primrose-willow, water-purslane, or water-primrose
Marco Solinas


  

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primrose-willow, water-purslane, or water-primrose


Explanation:
See http://www.plantes-invasives-lupin.eu/download/telechargemen... (this shows that "les jussies" belong to the Ludwigia genus) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwigia_(plant) (this shows the common English names for the Ludwigia genus plants
Many other similar sites can be found by appropriate searches.

Marco Solinas
Local time: 06:45
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
merci!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rachel Fell: or: floating primrose-willow/creeping water primrose. For finding information, Google and other websites can be useful and are available to translators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwigia_peploides - etc.
1 hr
agree  philgoddard: Yes, but no hyphens.
8 hrs
agree  Michele Fauble
18 hrs
agree  Philippe Barré
1 day 8 hrs
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