Veronica

veronica, in botany

veronica, in botany: see figwort.

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veronica, Christian relic

veronica (vərŏn`ĭkə) [Lat., probably connected with Greek Berenice], relic preserved in St. Peter's Church, Rome. It is said to be a veil that a woman used to wipe the face of Jesus as he was on the way to Calvary. The cloth retained the print of his face. The woman, often called Veronica, is not listed in official calendars of saints. The relic is commonly called Veronica's veil.

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Veronica

A program that searches the Internet for specific resources by description, not just file name. Using Boolean searches (this AND this, this OR this, etc.), users can search Gopher servers to retrieve a selected group of menus that pertain to their area of interest. See Gopher.

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veronica¹ RC Church

1. the representation of the face of Christ that, according to legend, was miraculously imprinted upon the headcloth that Saint Veronica offered him on his way to his crucifixion

2. the cloth itself

3. any similar representation of Christ's face

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veronica²

Bullfighting a pass in which the matador slowly swings the cape away from the charging bull

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veronica³

any scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Veronica, esp the speedwells, of temperate and cold regions, having small blue, pink, or white flowers and flattened notched fruits

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veronica

symbol of faithfulness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 178]

See : Faithfulness

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(information science)

Veronica - Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives. Veronica offers a keyword search of most gopher menu titles in the entire gopher web. As archie is to FTP archives, Veronica is to Gopherspace. A Veronica search produces a menu of Gopher items, each of which is a direct pointer to a Gopher data source. Because Veronica is accessed through a Gopher Client, it is easy to use, and gives access to all types of data supported by the Gopher protocol. To try Veronica, select it from the "Other Gophers" menu on Minnesota's gopher server, or point your gopher at: Name=veronica (search menu items in most of GopherSpace) Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/veronica Host=gopher.scs.unr.edu gopher://gopher.scs.unr.edu/1/veronica.

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Veronica

a genus of plants of the family Scrophu-lariaceae. They are annual, biennial, and perennial herbs, and sometimes semishrubs. The corolla may be light blue, dark blue, white, or other colors, usually four-lobed, and often spike-shaped; there are two stamens; the fruit is a double-nidus boll. There are approximately 300 species, inhabiting mainly the temperate and cold regions of the northern hemisphere, often in high mountains. In the USSR, there are over 140 species, found everywhere.

Several veronicas are cultivated as ornamentals. Species of the genus Hebe are often included in the genus Veronica;, these comprise over 100 species of shrubs and low trees that grow mainly in New Zealand (about 90 endemic representatives) and also in Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, and temperate areas of South America. Evergreen species of Hebe with attractive flowers are often cultivated—in the Caucasus and the Crimea in the USSR.

M. E. KIRPICHNIKOV