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noun
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.
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noun
Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.
Stellaria pro parte
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noun
Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.
Cerastium (mouse-ear chickweed)
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noun
Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:
Ageratum conyzoides
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noun
Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:
Holosteum (jagged chickweed)
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noun
Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:
Moenchia (upright chickweed)
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noun
Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:
Paronychia spp. (nailwort, whitlow-wort)
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noun
any of various plants related to the common chickweed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: mouse-ear chickweed, mouse eared chickweed, mouse ear, clammy chickweed
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Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
Narrower terms: field chickweed, field mouse-ear, Cerastium arvense, snow-in-summer, love-in-a-mist, Cerastium tomentosum, Alpine mouse-ear, Arctic mouse-ear, Cerastium alpinum
noun
any of various plants of the genus Stellaria
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
Narrower terms: common chickweed, Stellaria media, stitchwort, greater stitchwort, starwort, Stellaria holostea
History
From Middle English chykwed, chykewode, chike wed, chikewed, chekwede, a variant of chykynwede, chekyn-wede, cheken-wede (literally “chicken-weed”), equivalent to chick + weed. Etymonline claims the name was apparently applied to many plants fit for chicken feed, which were called in Old English cicene mete (“chicken food”).
Across languages
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