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chickweed (iou)



chickweed noun. LME.
[from CHICK noun1 + WEED noun1.]
Any of numerous small white-flowered plants of the family Caryophyllaceae, and esp. of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria; spec. S. media, a common weed. Orig. more widely, any of various similar weedy plants.
jagged chickweed: see JAGGED adjective1. mouse-ear chickweed: see MOUSE noun. water chickweed: see WATER noun.
Comb.: chickweed wintergreen a plant of the genus Trientalis, of the primrose family, bearing a starry white (occas. pink) flower above a whorl of obovate leaves, esp. T. europaea of Eurasian upland woods and moors (cf. star-flower s.v. STAR noun1).