Definition of Common chickweed

1. Noun. A common low-growing annual garden weed with small white flowers; cosmopolitan; so-called because it is eaten by chickens.

Exact synonyms: Stellaria Media
Generic synonyms: Chickweed

Definition of Common chickweed

1. Noun. The herb '''''Stellaria media'''''. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Chickweed

common buzzard
common buzzards
common calamint
common camas
common canary
common caper
common cardinal vein
common carline thistle
common carotid
common carotid artery
common carotid plexus
common carp
common carps
common carrier
common chickweed (current term)
common chickweeds
common chord
common clothes moth
common clothes moths
common cockscomb
common cold
common cold virus
common colds
common columbine
common comfrey
common coral tree
common corn salad
common coupling

Literary usage of Common chickweed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"Forked Chickweed, like common chickweed, may be killed with a spray of Iron ... Like Purslane and common chickweed, this plant seems almost domesticated in ..."

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