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Chickweed

noun

Any of various plants of the genus Stellaria.

Any of various plants related to the common chickweed. Synonyms: clammy chickweed, mouse-ear chickweed, mouse ear, mouse eared chickweed.

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... with their law studies, and tutoring, and translating, in Teufelsdroeckh's desultory period. The climax of it is in those scornful sentences about Aesthetic Teas, to which the hungry lion was invited, that he might feed on chickweed—well for all concerned if it did not end in his feeding on the chickens instead! It is an unwholesome time with the lad—a time of sullen contempt alternating with loud rebellion, of mingled vanity ...

— Among Famous Books • John Kelman

... elevations. The larger marmot is common, and I found the horns of the "Tchiru" antelope. Neither the wild horse, fox, hare, nor tailless rat, cross the Donkia pass. White clover, shepherd's purse, dock, plantain, and chickweed, are imported here by yaks; but the common Prunella of Europe is wild, and so is a groundsel like Senecio Jacobaea, Ranunculus, Sibbaldia, and 200 other plants. The grasses are numerous; they belong chiefly to Poa, Festuca, Stipa, ...

— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker

Words linked to "Chickweed" : herb, Cerastium arvense, field mouse-ear, love-in-a-mist, Stellaria holostea, snow-in-summer, herbaceous plant, Arctic mouse-ear, stitchwort, Cerastium alpinum, starwort, Stellaria media, genus Cerastium, Cerastium, greater stitchwort, Stellaria, Alpine mouse-ear, Cerastium tomentosum, genus Stellaria