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noun Any of various plants of the genus Veronica, which includes the speedwells.
noun According to popular legend, an image of the face of Jesus as impressed on the handkerchief offered to him by Saint Veronica on the road to Calvary.
noun The handkerchief itself.

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A napkin or piece of cloth impressed with the face of Christ: from the legend that a woman named Veronica wiped the face of Christ with her handkerchief when he was on his way to Calvary, and that the likeness of the face was miraculously impressed upon the cloth. Also vernicle.
[capitalized] [NL. (Rivinus, 1690; earlier, about 1554, by Mattioli).] A genus of gamopetalous plants, of the order Scrophularineæ and tribe Digitaleæ, type of the subtribe Veroniceæ. It is characterized “by opposite lower leaves, a wheelshaped corolla with a very short tube and spreading lobes, and by two stamens with their anther-cells confluent at the apex. About 220 species have been described, perhaps to be reduced to 180. They are widely scattered through temperate and cold regions, and are usually low herbs, their stem-leaves almost always plainly opposite, but the floral leaves always alternate and commonly diminished into bracts. V. Virginica is exceptional in its whorled leaves. The flowers arc blue, often penciled with violet, and varying to purple, pink, or white, but never yellow; they form terminal or axillary racemes, or are solitary and sessile in the axils. The fruit is a loculicidal or four-valved capsule, often obtuse or notched, rarely acute. The species are known as speedwell, especially V. Chamædrys, also called forget-me-not (see speedwell). A few are of medicinal repute, especially V. Virginica, known as black-root and Culver's-root or Culver's-physic, a tall perennial with wand-like stem from 2 to 6 feet high, and a white spike from 6 to 10 inches long, occurring in Canada, the eastern and central United States, Japan, and Siberia. The leaves of V. officinalis have been used as a medicinal tea; the socalled Mont Cenis tea is from V. Allionii. Twelve species are natives of England, 60 of Europe, 6 of Alaska, and 11 of the United States proper, only two of which are confined to North America: V. Cusickii, a large-flowered alpine plant of Oregon and California, and V. Americana, known as brooklime, a petiolate aquatic with purple-striped paleblue flowers, distributed from Virginia and New Mexico to Alaska. The similar V. Beccabunga of the Old World is the original brooklime. Five other species are now naturalized in the United States; of these, V. peregrina and V. serpyllifolia are almost cosmopolitan. (See neckweed, and Paul's betony (under betony).) For V. hederæfolia, see henbit; and for V. officinalis, see speedwell (with cut) and fluellen. Many foreign species (at least fifty) are valued for cultivation in gardens, as V. longifolia, or for rockeries, as V. repens, a creeper forming a mat of pale-blue flowers. Many are of variegated colors, as V. saxatilis. an alpine plant with blue violet-striped flowers, narrowly ringed with crimson around the white center. Numerous species occur in high southern latitudes, 14 in Australia, and 24 in New Zealand, one of which, V. elliptica, extends to Cape Horn, and sometimes becomes a small tree 20 feet high. The genus reaches its greatest development in New-Zealand, where it is present in remarkable beauty and abundance. Nearly all the species are shrubby, usually from 2 to 6 feet high, and are cultivated under glass, especially V. salicifolia and V. speciosa, with wine-colored flowers, the largest-leafed species, as also V. formosa of Tasmania. V. buxifolia, with purple-veined white flowers, is sometimes known as New Zealand box; and V. perfoliata, of southern Australia, as digger's-speedwell. V. tetragona of New Zealand, from its hard imbricated decussate connate leaves, has been mistaken for a conifer.

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New Latin Veronica, genus name.
Medieval Latin, perhaps alteration of vēra īconica, true image : Latin vēra, feminine of vērus, true; see very + Latin īconica, feminine of īconicus, of an image (from Greek eikonikos, from eikōn, image; see icon).
Spanish, from veronica, the veronica (from the gesture Saint Veronica made), from Medieval Latin; see veronica².

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In Middle English veronike and verony, from Old French veronique, French véronique = Spanish veronica = Portuguese Italian veronica; from Middle Latin veronica, a napkin supposed to be impressed with the face of Christ (popularly connected with L. vera, true, + LGr. εἰκών, image: see very, icon), from Veronica, the traditional name of the woman who wiped the Saviour's face, ult. identical with Berenīce, Bernīce, the traditional name of the woman cured of the issue of blood, Latin Berenīce, also Beronīce, and contr. Bernīce, from Greek βερενἰκη, the name of the daughter, of King Agrippa and of other women, Macedonian form of Greek φερενἰκη, literally ‘bearer of victory,’ from φἐρειν, = English bear, + νἰκη, victory (see Nike). Hence ult. vernicle.

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