chickweed

IPA: tʃˈɪkwid

Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.
especially common chickweed, Stellaria media, a common, edible weed in North America and Europe.
Stellaria pro parte - chickweed
Cerastium - mouse-ear chickweed
Other plants of similar appearance and habit:
Ageratum conyzoides, chickweed
Holosteum - jagged chickweed
Moenchia - upright chickweed
Paronychia - chickweed

Examples of "chickweed" in Sentences

Pretend the chickweed is the enemy fighting my pea patch here.
The chickweed is a grass which is also a natural treatment of psoriasis.
Look in your local health food store for creams that contain moisturizing herbs such as chickweed, calendula, comfrey, and chamomile.
When we used to have a very large aviary, I used to give plenty of 'chickweed' (in French - “du mouron”) to the birds - what a useful weed!
Alphonse Karr, who so greatly enjoyed his garden, and wrote of it with so much pleasure, says: The chickweed is endowed with a fecundity that no other plant possesses ....
Growers should be monitoring their small corn that is up or that will be emerging shortly, especially in those fields that have or had winter annuals such as chickweed present.
A British study on oilseed has recently concluded that it is not the GM crops that harm wildlife but the herbicides sprayed on the crops that significantly reduce the broad leaf weeds such as chickweed, a major bird food.
Here the chickweed is a fetich precisely as is the flint arrow head which is put into the same decoction, in order that in the same mysterious manner its sharp cutting qualities may be communicated to the liquid and enable it to cut the worms into pieces.