Meaning of Chickweed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.
   uncountable, usually
2. especially common chickweed (Stellaria media), a common, edible weed in North America and Europe.
   uncountable, usually
3. Stellaria pro parte
   uncountable, usually
4. Cerastium (mouse-ear chickweed)
   uncountable, usually
5. Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:
   uncountable, usually
6. Ageratum conyzoides
   uncountable, usually
7. Holosteum (jagged chickweed)
   uncountable, usually
8. Moenchia (upright chickweed)
   uncountable, usually
9. Paronychia spp. (nailwort, whitlow-wort)
   uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“I look at the little sprigs of chickweed trembling among the bean shoots and I am strangely moved. Such steadfastness! Such yearning! They want to live too. That is all they ask: to have their little moment in the world.”

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