Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria of the pink family, especially S. media, a cosmopolitan weed having small white flowers with deeply notched petals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The popular name of Stellaria media, a common weed in cultivated and waste grounds, flowering throughout the year.
- noun A name of several plants of other genera.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The name of several caryophyllaceous weeds, especially
Stellaria media , the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several small-leaved
herbs of the genera Cerastium andStellaria .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various plants of the genus Stellaria
- noun any of various plants related to the common chickweed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Pretend the chickweed is the enemy fighting my pea patch here.
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Alphonse Karr, who so greatly enjoyed his garden, and wrote of it with so much pleasure, says: The chickweed is endowed with a fecundity that no other plant possesses ....
An Island Garden 1894
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Here the chickweed is a fetich precisely as is the flint arrow head which is put into the same decoction, in order that in the same mysterious manner its sharp cutting qualities may be communicated to the liquid and enable it to cut the worms into pieces.
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Here the chickweed is a fetich precisely as is the flint arrow head which is put into the same decoction, in order that in the same mysterious manner its sharp cutting qualities may be communicated to the liquid and enable it to cut the worms into pieces.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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The chickweed is a grass which is also a natural treatment of psoriasis.
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The chickweed is a grass which is also a natural treatment of psoriasis.
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When we used to have a very large aviary, I used to give plenty of 'chickweed' (in French - “du mouron”) to the birds - what a useful weed!
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A British study on oilseed has recently concluded that it is not the GM crops that harm wildlife but the herbicides sprayed on the crops that significantly reduce the broad leaf weeds such as chickweed, a major bird food.
Opportunities and risks of genetically modified crops in Africa 2007
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Look in your local health food store for creams that contain moisturizing herbs such as chickweed, calendula, comfrey, and chamomile.
Gentle Healing for Baby and Child Andrea Candee 2000
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Growers should be monitoring their small corn that is up or that will be emerging shortly, especially in those fields that have or had winter annuals such as chickweed present.
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