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
Word origin
C16: variant of C15 brokelemk speedwell, from brook1 + -lemk, from Old English hleomoce; influenced by lime
brooklime in American English
(ˈbrukˌlaim)
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
Word origin
[1400–50; late ME brokelemke, equiv. to brokebrook1 + lemke, OE hleomoce speedwell, c. MLG lömeke]This word is first recorded in the period 1400–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: curl, gallery, partition, peg, separate
Examples of 'brooklime' in a sentence
brooklime
Here and there the water glinted with rafts of brooklime and the evergreen watercress.