SPEEDWELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does speedwell mean? 

• SPEEDWELL (noun)
  The noun SPEEDWELL has 1 sense:

1. any plant of the genus Veronica

  Familiarity information: SPEEDWELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPEEDWELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Veronica

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

speedwell; veronica

Hypernyms ("speedwell" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "speedwell"):

field speedwell; Veronica agrestis (European plant with minute axillary blue flowers on long stalks; widely naturalized in America)

corn speedwell; Veronica arvensis (erect or procumbent blue-flowered annual found in waste places of Europe and America)

bird's eye; germander speedwell; Veronica chamaedrys (Old World plant with axillary racemes of blue-and-white flowers)

common speedwell; gypsyweed; Veronica officinalis (common hairy European perennial with pale blue or lilac flowers in axillary racemes)

purslane speedwell; Veronica peregrina (North American annual with small white flowers widely naturalized as a weed in South America and Europe)

thyme-leaved speedwell; Veronica serpyllifolia (perennial decumbent herb having small opposite leaves and racemes of blue flowers; throughout Eurasia and the New World)

Holonyms ("speedwell" is a member of...):

genus Veronica (widespread genus of herbs with pink or white or blue or purple flowers: speedwell)