speedwell : Idioms & Phrases

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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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• 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