brooklime

[brook-lahym]

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noun

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

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noun

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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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 ��ö��

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Word History and Origins

Origin of brooklime¹

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

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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.

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

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

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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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brooklet Brookline

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