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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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]


The 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]