brooklime

2 definitions found

brooklime - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.]
     [1913 Webster]

brooklime - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  brooklime
      n 1: European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers;
           sparsely naturalized in North America [syn: brooklime,
           European brooklime, Veronica beccabunga]
      2: plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having
         prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac
         flowers [syn: brooklime, American brooklime, Veronica   americana
         ]