- veronica⇄veronica (1), noun.
1. any one of a group of plants of the figwort family; speedwell.
2a. Often, Veronica. the sudarium or handkerchief, preserved as a relic at St. Peter's, Rome, and alleged to be the original with which Saint Veronica wiped - veronica⇄veronica (2), noun.
a maneuver in bullfighting, in which the matador slowly turns with the cape without moving his feet as the bull rushes toward him.
Ex. Cordobano tried a series of curtailed and unsatisfactory veronicas, but the bull had exc