… adds a bacopa extract to its Memory Optimizer pills because the herb "improves memory and the ability to learn new information," according to the company.—David Schardt, Nutrition Action, May 2007
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: a southern African trailing plant (Sutera cordata of the family Scrophulariaceae) that has heart-shaped evergreen leaves and small, 5-petaled, often white flowers and that is used especially as a ground cover and in hanging baskets
Each wood column has a basket of impatiens hanging at eye level and a big pot of coleus and trailing bacopa at the base.—Jim McCausland, Sunset, June 2006
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Etymology
New Latin, probably from a native name in the Guianas
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