brooklime

[ brook-lahym ]

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.

brooklime

/ 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of brooklime¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of brooklime¹

C16: variant of C15 brokelemk speedwell, from brook ¹+ -lemk , from Old English hleomoce ; influenced by lime

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 Literature

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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

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