brooklime

American  

[brook-lahym] / ˈbrʊkˌlaɪm /

noun

1. any of various speedwells found along brooks, in marshes, etc., as Veronica americana American brooklime, a creeping plant having leafy stems and loose clusters of small blue flowers.

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brooklime British  

/ ˈbrʊkˌlaɪm /

noun

1. either of two blue-flowered scrophulariaceous trailing plants, Veronica americana of North America or V. beccabunga of Europe and Asia, growing in moist places See also speedwell

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Etymology

Origin of brooklime

1400–50; late Middle English brokelemke, equivalent to broke brook ¹ + lemke, Old English hleomoce speedwell, cognate with Middle Low German lömeke

Example Sentences

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brooklime

A hundred yards away, at the bottom of the slope, ran the brook, no more than three feet wide, half choked with kingcups, watercress and blue brooklime.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Beneath it went under thickest brooklime, blue flowered, and serrated water-parsnips, lost like many a mighty river for awhile among a forest of leaves.

From The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies

At the base of the rocks, where there was still some moisture, were the blue flowers of the brooklime veronica, and the brighter blue of the forget-me-not.

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker

The blue flower of the brooklime is not seen here; you must look for it where the springs break forth, where its foliage sometimes quite conceals the tiny rill.

From Round About a Great Estate by Richard Jefferies

But the ditches below are yet green with brooklime and rushes.

From Nature Near London by Richard Jefferies