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chickweed phlox
(encz) | chickweed phlox, n: |
clammy chickweed
(encz) | clammy chickweed, n: |
common chickweed
(encz) | common chickweed, n: |
field chickweed
(encz) | field chickweed, n: |
mouse eared chickweed
(encz) | mouse eared chickweed, n: |
mouse-ear chickweed
(encz) | mouse-ear chickweed, n: |
water chickweed
(encz) | water chickweed, n: |
Chickweed
(gcide) | Chickweed \Chick"weed`\ (-w[=e]d`), n. (Bot.)
The name of several caryophyllaceous weeds, especially
Stellaria media, the seeds and flower buds of which are a
favorite food of small birds.
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Chickweed wintergreen
(gcide) | Wintergreen \Win"ter*green`\, n. (Bot.)
A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
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Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the
species of Pyrola which in America are called
English wintergreen, and shin leaf (see Shin leaf,
under Shin.) In America, the name wintergreen is
given to Gaultheria procumbens, a low evergreen
aromatic plant with oval leaves clustered at the top of
a short stem, and bearing small white flowers followed
by red berries; -- called also checkerberry, and
sometimes, though improperly, partridge berry.
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Chickweed wintergreen, a low perennial primulaceous herb
(Trientalis Americana); -- also called star flower.
Flowering wintergreen, a low plant (Polygala paucifolia)
with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen
(Gaultheria), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple
blossoms.
oil of wintergreen, An aromatic oil, consisting almost
entirely of methyl salicylate (CH3CO.O.C6H4.OH),
obtained by distillation of an extract of the wintergreen
(Gaultheria procumbens); it can also be obtained from
some other plants. It is used as a flavoring agent for
tooth powders and pastes, sometimes combined with menthol
or eucalyptus. It is called also oil of teaberry, {oil
of partridgeberry}, and oil of gaultheria.
Spotted wintergreen, a low evergreen plant ({Chimaphila
maculata}) with ovate, white-spotted leaves.
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Germander chickweed
(gcide) | Germander \Ger*man"der\, n. [OE. germaunder, F. germandr['e]e,
It. calamandrea, L. chamaedrys, fr. Gr.?; ? on the earth or
ground + ? tree. See Humble, and Tree.] (Bot.)
A plant of the genus Teucrium (esp. Teucrium Cham[ae]drys
or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs.
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American germander, Teucrium Canadense.
Germander chickweed, Veronica agrestis.
Water germander, Teucrium Scordium.
Wood germander, Teucrium Scorodonia.
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Mouse-ear chickweed
(gcide) | Mouse-ear \Mouse"-ear`\, n. (Bot.)
(a) The forget-me-not (Myosotis palustris) and other
species of the same genus.
(b) A European species of hawkweed ({Hieracium
Pilosella}).
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Mouse-ear chickweed, a name of two common species of
chickweed (Cerastium vulgarium, and {Cerastium
viscosum}).
Mouse-ear cress, a low cruciferous herb ({Sisymbrium
Thaliana}). All these are low herbs with soft, oval, or
obovate leaves, whence the name.
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Sea chickweed
(gcide) | Sea chickweed \Sea" chick"weed`\ (Bot.)
A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts
in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called
also sea sandwort, and sea purslane.
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Water chickweed
(gcide) | Water chickweed \Wa"ter chick"weed`\ (Bot.)
A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places
in southern regions.
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blinking chickweed
(wn) | blinking chickweed
n 1: small Indian lettuce of northern regions [syn: blinks,
blinking chickweed, water chickweed, {Montia
lamprosperma}] |
chickweed phlox
(wn) | chickweed phlox
n 1: low mat-forming herb of rocky places in United States [syn:
chickweed phlox, sand phlox, Phlox bifida, {Phlox
stellaria}] |
clammy chickweed
(wn) | clammy chickweed
n 1: any of various plants related to the common chickweed [syn:
mouse-ear chickweed, mouse eared chickweed, {mouse
ear}, clammy chickweed, chickweed] |
common chickweed
(wn) | common chickweed
n 1: a common low-growing annual garden weed with small white
flowers; cosmopolitan; so-called because it is eaten by
chickens [syn: common chickweed, Stellaria media] |
field chickweed
(wn) | field chickweed
n 1: densely tufted perennial chickweed of north temperate zone
[syn: field chickweed, field mouse-ear, {Cerastium
arvense}] |
indian chickweed
(wn) | Indian chickweed
n 1: annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and
small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North
America [syn: carpetweed, Indian chickweed, {Molluga
verticillata}] |
mouse eared chickweed
(wn) | mouse eared chickweed
n 1: any of various plants related to the common chickweed [syn:
mouse-ear chickweed, mouse eared chickweed, {mouse
ear}, clammy chickweed, chickweed] |
mouse-ear chickweed
(wn) | mouse-ear chickweed
n 1: any of various plants related to the common chickweed [syn:
mouse-ear chickweed, mouse eared chickweed, {mouse
ear}, clammy chickweed, chickweed] |
water chickweed
(wn) | water chickweed
n 1: small Indian lettuce of northern regions [syn: blinks,
blinking chickweed, water chickweed, {Montia
lamprosperma}] |
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