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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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