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MOUSE-EAR 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:
Hypernyms ("mouse-ear 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 "mouse-ear 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 ("mouse-ear chickweed" is a member of...):
Cerastium; genus Cerastium (mouse-eared chickweed)
