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Definition of Brooklime

1. Noun. European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America.

2. Noun. Plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers.

Definition of Brooklime

1. n. A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana.

Definition of Brooklime

1. Noun. A plant (''Veronica beccabunga'') with usually blue flowers in axillary racemes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Brooklime

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Medical Definition of Brooklime

1. A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana. [Formerly written broklempe or broklympe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brooklime

brook lamprey brook lampreys brook mint brook thistle brook trout brook trouts brooked brookie brookies brooking

brookite brookites brooklet brooklets brooklike brooklime (current term) brooklimes brookside brooksides brookweed

brookweeds brool brools broom broom-like broom-weed broom closet broom corn

Literary usage of Brooklime

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Universal formulary: Containing the Methods of Preparing and Administering by Robert Eglesfeld Griffith (1866)
"R. brooklime, Water, each, two parts Distil off one part. Cotter eau. ... R. Clarified juice of brooklime, one part. Sugar, two parts. ..."

2. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1902)
"ML FERNALD. VERONICA BECCABUNGA. No. 46 THE common brooklime, Veronica Beccabunga, of Europe was well known to the older English herbalists as ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"brooklime. (1) Generally applied to Veronica Beccabunga, L.— Prior (p. 29) does not give the origin of the word, and Skinner's three solutions do not throw ..."

4. Studies of Plant Life in Canada: Wild Flowers, Flowering Shrubs, and Grasses by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (1906)
"AMERICAN brooklime—Veronica Americana (Schw.). (PLATE XVII. ... The American brooklime is one of the prettiest of the native Veronicas, and may easily be ..."

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