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Definition of chickweed

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noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.
    “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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noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.
    “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.”
  2. (uncountable, usually)Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.
  3. (uncountable, usually)Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.
  4. (uncountable, usually)Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:
  5. (uncountable, usually)Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:
  6. (uncountable, usually)Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:
  7. (uncountable, usually)Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:

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Etymology

From Middle English chykwed, chykewode, chike wed, chikewed, chekwede, a variant of chykynwede, chekyn-wede, cheken-wede (literally “chicken-weed”), equivalent to chick + weed. Etymonline claims the name was apparently applied to many plants fit for chicken feed, which were called in Old English cicene mete (“chicken food”).

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