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Webster 1913 Edition
Chickweed
Chick′weedˊ
(-wēdˊ)
, Noun.
(Bot.)
The name of several caryophyllaceous weeds, especially
Stellaria media
, the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds. Definition 2024
chickweed
chickweed
English
Noun
chickweed (usually uncountable, plural chickweeds)
- Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.
- especially common chickweed, Stellaria media, a common, edible weed in North America and Europe.
- 1993, John Banville, Ghosts
- I look at the little sprigs of chickweed trembling among the bean shoots and I am strangely moved. Such steadfastness! Such yearning! They want to live too. That is all they ask: to have their little moment in the world.
- 1993, John Banville, Ghosts
- Stellaria pro parte - chickweed
- Cerastium - mouse-ear chickweed
- especially common chickweed, Stellaria media, a common, edible weed in North America and Europe.
- Other plants of similar appearance and habit:
- Ageratum conyzoides, chickweed
- Holosteum - jagged chickweed
- Moenchia - upright chickweed
- Paronychia - chickweed
Translations
herb
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