brooklime Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America
    European brooklime; Veronica beccabunga.
  2. noun plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers
    Veronica americana; American brooklime.

WordNet

Brook"lime` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana. Formerly written broklempe or broklympe.

Webster 1913