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

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

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 Barker, Edward Harrison

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 Jefferies, Richard

The size and thickness of the cress and of the fothlacht, or brooklime, that grew on it was a wonderment to them.”

From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)

Bullrushes and brooklime are also good, but the bullrushes must be planted judiciously.

From Amateur Fish Culture by Walker, Charles Edward