chickweed
Noun
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Noun
chickweed (uncountable)
- 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
- French: mouron blanc
- German: Vogelmiere
- Italian: centocchio
- Portuguese: morrião-dos-passarinhos, morugem
- Russian: алзи́на
- Spanish: capiquí, pamplina, hierba gallinera
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