Meaning

7 senses
  1. Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.

    (uncountable, usually)Especially common chickweed (Stellaria media), a common, edible weed in North America and Europe.

    Vogelmiere

    алзи́наalzína, мокри́чникmokríčnik

    any of various plants related to the common chickweed

  2. (uncountable, usually)Stellaria pro parte

    any of various plants of the genus Stellaria

  3. (uncountable, usually)Cerastium (mouse-ear chickweed)

  4. Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:

    (uncountable, usually)Ageratum conyzoides

  5. (uncountable, usually)Holosteum (jagged chickweed)

  6. (uncountable, usually)Moenchia (upright chickweed)

  7. (uncountable, usually)Paronychia spp. (nailwort, whitlow-wort)

Translations

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Origin

From Middle English chykwed, chykewode, chike wed, chikewed, chekwede, a variant of chykyn

From Middle English chykwed, chykewode, chike wed, chikewed, chekwede, a variant of chykynwede, chekyn-wede, cheken-wede (literally “chicken-weed”), equivalent to chick + weed.

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Forms

plural: chickweeds

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

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