Definition of "stitchwort" []

• Any of several low-growing plants of the genus Stellaria, having opposite leaves and small, white, star-shaped flowers. (noun)

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• "In the parish lanes, sunlit banks of red campion, white stitchwort, bluebells and ferns are dusty from earth eroded by burrowing rabbits and stirred up by traffic."
• "The line between Edge Wood and recently cultivated fields was white with cow parsley, stitchwort and wild garlic."
• "Bank of bluebells and stitchwort along the edge of a wood....."