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Sparsely naturalized in North America
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brooklime
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Word definitions for brooklime in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brooklime \Brook"lime`\, n. (Bot.) A plant ( Veronica Beccabunga ), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is Veronica Americana . [Formerly written broklempe or broklympe .]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A plant ((taxlink Veronica beccabunga species noshow=1)) with usually blue flowers in axillary racemes.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers often pink-flushed; sparsely naturalized in North America [syn: European brooklime , Veronica beccabunga ] plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense ...
Usage examples of brooklime.
Woodruff and brooklime, both rich in tannin, relieved burns when applied in butter with the root of a lily.
The furrows run to the ditch under the reeds, the ditch declines to a little streamlet which winds all hidden by willowherb and rush and flag, a mere trickle of water under brooklime, away at the feet of the corn.
Prior tells us that the name Brooklime is in old writers Broklempe or Lympe, from its growing in the lime or mud of brooks, the Anglo-Saxon word lime, coming from the Latin limus, a word that from mud used in the rude buildings of Anglo-Saxon times, has come to be applied to the calcareous stone of which mortar is now made.