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speedwell noun[ C or U ] uk /ˈspiːd.wel/ us /ˈspiːd.wel/ any of several wild plants that grow along the ground, usually with small blue flowers : The blue flowers of speedwell are more vivid than the clearest summer sky. My lawn has pretty outbreaks of flowers, including heavenly blue-eyed speedwells and bright buttercups. In the spring, the lanes brim with campion, bluebells, early purple orchids, primroses, violets, and speedwell. The lawn was a close-cropped carpet of grass, speedwell, white clover, dandelion, and plantain. Her eyes were blue as speedwell. Attack annual weeds such as speedwell before they set seed. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Flowers & flowering plants aconite adam-and-eve aeonium African daisy agapanthus edelweiss eglantine elderflower elephant ear erythronium locoweed loosestrife lords-and-ladies lotus love-in-a-mist sea pink sedum sego lily self-heal senecio |