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Definition of Brookweed
1. Noun. American water pimpernel.
2. Noun. Water pimpernel of Europe to China.
Definition of Brookweed
1. n. A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.
Definition of Brookweed
1. Noun. A small white-flowered herb (''Samolus valerandi'') usually found in wet places; the water pimpernel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Brookweed
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Brookweed
Literary usage of Brookweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora Bedfordiensis, Comprehending Such Plants as Grow Wild in the County of by Charles Abbot (1798)
"brookweed. SAMOLUS. Gen. PI. 294. Blossom salver-shaped. Threads defended by the
scales of the ... Pimpernel brookweed. — S. valerandi. Curtis. IV. 20. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1869)
"This would remain an anomaly, if in one of the species of the family—the samolus
or brookweed—we did not find five scales representing five abortive petals ..."
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