chickweed
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From Middle English chykwed, chykewode, chike wed, chikewed, chekwede, a variant of chykynwede, chekyn-wede, cheken-wede (literally “chicken-weed”), equivalent to chick + weed.
Noun edit
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.
- 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
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