Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants of the genus Veronica of the figwort family, having opposite leaves and clusters of small, usually blue flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the genus Veronica, especially V. Chamædrys, an herb with creeping and ascending stems, and racemes of bright-blue flowers, whence it has received in Great Britain such fanciful names as angel's-eyes, bird's-eye, god's-eye, and eyebright. Also called
germander-speedwell .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A plant of
genus Veronica .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any plant of the genus Veronica
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I think speedwell is also available in the Stepables line, meaning it can take some light foot traffic, so it would work well between stepping stones.
My favorite blue in the garden « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2010
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Oriental cockroach, lately imported; and Mr. Brewer observed with joy in his garden at Reigate the blue Buxbaum speedwell, which is now the acknowledged and hated pest of the Surrey agriculturist.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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For your buttonhole I have braided loosestrife and self-heal and eyebrightand speedwell and speedwell.
Poems for a wedding 2011
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A little further away, on Windmill Hill, the breeze had torn up tiny bits of brown paper which turned out to be small heath butterflies, and ginger, red and black bumblebees barreled over short turf jewelled in the blue and yellow of speedwell and buttercup.
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Iffen anywun heer likes growing fings in gardens, mani speeshees ob bluebell and speedwell aer endanjured, adn mani obber wildflowers aer becoming rare.
Frank never really understood - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Thaznks, speedwell-- I have never seen Mckay's here, but I'll look for it!
HOMEMADE VEGGIE BROTH POWDER, BIG-BATCH CARAMELIZED ONIONS (WITH OR WITHOUT OIL), AND VEGAN ONION SOUP Bryanna Clark Grogan 2008
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Notably, the AAUP opposes this practice. speedwell
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For this is a safer time of year than the flourish of the spring-tide, when the impulse of young warmth awaking was suddenly smitten by the bleak east wind, and cowslip and cuckoo-flower and speedwell got their bright lips browned with cold.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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A tea made from equal parts of sage, wormwood, licorice root, and alpine speedwell has also been used.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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Around the fresh soil of the grave are a profusion of wild irises, speedwell, and a cluster of tiny blue flowers whose name escapes me although I have seen them before.
Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003
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