Brooklime

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  brooklime
       n 1: European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers
            often pink-flushed; sparsely naturalized in North
            America [syn: {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: {American brooklime}, {Veronica americana}]