[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]