speedwell : Idioms & Phrases


common speedwell

  • noun common hairy European perennial with pale blue or lilac flowers in axillary racemes
    Veronica officinalis; gypsyweed.
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corn speedwell

  • noun erect or procumbent blue-flowered annual found in waste places of Europe and America
    Veronica arvensis.
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field speedwell

  • noun European plant with minute axillary blue flowers on long stalks; widely naturalized in America
    Veronica agrestis.
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germander speedwell

  • noun Old World plant with axillary racemes of blue-and-white flowers
    Veronica chamaedrys; bird's eye.
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purslane speedwell

  • noun North American annual with small white flowers widely naturalized as a weed in South America and Europe
    Veronica peregrina.
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thyme-leaved speedwell

  • noun perennial decumbent herb having small opposite leaves and racemes of blue flowers; throughout Eurasia and the New World
    Veronica serpyllifolia.
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water speedwell

  • noun plant of wet places in Eurasia and America
    Veronica michauxii; Veronica anagallis-aquatica.
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Wa"ter speed"well
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.
Webster 1913