noun
any of various plants related to the common chickweed
• Syn: ↑mouse eared chickweed, ↑mouse ear, ↑clammy chickweed, ↑chickweed
• Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant
• Hyponyms:
↑field chickweed, ↑field mouse-ear, ↑Cerastium arvense, ↑snow-in-summer, ↑love-in-a-mist, ↑Cerastium tomentosum, ↑Alpine mouse-ear, ↑Arctic mouse-ear, ↑Cerastium alpinum
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cerastium, ↑genus Cerastium
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noun or mouse-eared chickweed also mouse-ear : any of several hairy chickweeds of the genus Cerastium (especially C. vulgatum and C. viscosum) — called also clammy chickweed
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any of several weedy plants belonging to the genus Cerastium, of the pink family, as C. vulgatum, having small, hairy leaves and tiny, white flowers.
[1725-35]
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mouse-ear chickweed noun
Any plant of the genus Cerastium, related to chickweed
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Main Entry: ↑mouse
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mouse-ear chickweed,
any one of a group of plants of the pink family of temperate regions.
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n. see chickweed
Useful english dictionary. 2012.