BROOKLIMES

Noun

brooklimes

plural of brooklime

Source: Wiktionary


BROOKLIME

Brook"lime`, n. (Bot.)

Definition: A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana. [Formerly written broklempe or broklympe.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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DIRECTIONALITY

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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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