chickweed
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1. any of various plants related to the common chickweed (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | herb, herbaceous plant, |
| definition | : | a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cerastium arvense, field chickweed, field mouse-ear, |
| definition | : | densely tufted perennial chickweed of north temperate zone (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cerastium tomentosum, love-in-a-mist, snow-in-summer, |
| definition | : | chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | alpine mouse-ear, arctic mouse-ear, cerastium alpinum, |
| definition | : | widespread in the Arctic and on mountains in Europe (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | cerastium, genus cerastium, |
| definition | : | mouse-eared chickweed (noun.plant) |
2. any of various plants of the genus Stellaria (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | herb, herbaceous plant, |
| definition | : | a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | common chickweed, stellaria media, |
| definition | : | a common low-growing annual garden weed with small white flowers; cosmopolitan; so-called because it is eaten by chickens (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | greater stitchwort, starwort, stellaria holostea, stitchwort, |
| definition | : | low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus stellaria, stellaria, |
| definition | : | common chickweed; stitchwort (noun.plant) |
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