chickweed
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Alternative forms
Etymology
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
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
- 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, including those of species:
Derived terms
Translations
herb
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