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CHICKWEED

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various plants related to the common chickweed

Synonyms:

chickweed; clammy chickweed; mouse-ear chickweed; mouse ear; mouse eared chickweed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("chickweed" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chickweed"):

Cerastium arvense; field chickweed; field mouse-ear (densely tufted perennial chickweed of north temperate zone)

Cerastium tomentosum; love-in-a-mist; snow-in-summer (chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers)

Alpine mouse-ear; Arctic mouse-ear; Cerastium alpinum (widespread in the Arctic and on mountains in Europe)

Holonyms ("chickweed" is a member of...):

Cerastium; genus Cerastium (mouse-eared chickweed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Stellaria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("chickweed" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chickweed"):

common chickweed; Stellaria media (a common low-growing annual garden weed with small white flowers; cosmopolitan; so-called because it is eaten by chickens)

greater stitchwort; starwort; Stellaria holostea; stitchwort (low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side)

Holonyms ("chickweed" is a member of...):

genus Stellaria; Stellaria (common chickweed; stitchwort)

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