chickweed Definition
chick·weed (-wēd′)
noun
any of several low-growing plants (esp. genera Cerastium and Stellaria) of the pink family, often found as weeds in lawns and gardens
chickweed Usage Examples
Converse of object
include: Both sites had new species including water chickweed, common toadflax, snapdragon, common hemp nettle, dwarf mallow and greater knapweed.
Adjective modifier
common: Common chickweed is a host of several damaging virus diseases of crop plants.
Modifies a noun
- wintergreen: The delicate pink - flushed white flowers of Chickweed wintergreen will be in flower through to August.
- seed: Elsewhere, under a grass sward, common chickweed seed had a mean annual decline rate of 26 % .
Noun used with modifier
water: Both sites had new species including water chickweed, common toadflax, snapdragon, common hemp nettle, dwarf mallow and greater knapweed.
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