chickweed
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- noun
- /ˈtʃɪkˌwiːd/
:
hierba gallinera
- In early spring, you can find chickweed growing abundantly in fields and gardens.
- chickweed seller
Examples
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From nine every morning until midday, what makes the chickweed flower upright?
Fiction book (1991) -
Things like chickweed and sorrel, which has a lemony taste.
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Chickweed and kudzu were choking most of the peppers.
Fiction book (1997) -
The tundra landscape on these islands will commonly show species such as Lapland longspurs, Arctic poppies, Louseworts, Rock jasmine, Chickweed, and Lupine.
Academic text (2004) -
Many gardeners consider chickweed a troublesome weed that can choke out desired plants.
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For a nutritious addition to your salad, try using fresh chickweed, which has a mild flavor.
Synonyms
A small low plant with white flowers that grows as a weed
A low-growing garden weed with small white flowers that chickens eat
A small plant with delicate white flowers often called chickweed
A group of small flowering plants often called chickweed or stitchwort
A low spreading weed that forms a flat green mat with small greenish-white flowers
A low plant with small white star-shaped flowers that grows in woods
A small green plant that grows in thick groups in cool regions and lives for many years
A small plant with white flowers that grows in grassy meadows
Compounds
A small wild plant with sticky, slightly wet leaves that grows in shady, wet places
A small green plant that grows in thick groups in cool regions and lives for many years
A low spreading weed that forms a flat green mat with small greenish-white flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Chickweed comes from the simple parts chick and weed, meaning 'weed for chicks' because young chickens and other small birds often ate the plant. So chickweed is the name for a small, low-growing plant you find in gardens and fields.