Definition of "chickweed" []

• Any of various herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria, especially S. media, a European weed naturalized worldwide. The herb has small white flowers, petals with two deep lobes, and opposite leaves. (noun)

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• "Pretend the chickweed is the enemy fighting my pea patch here."
• "Alphonse Karr, who so greatly enjoyed his garden, and wrote of it with so much pleasure, says: The chickweed is endowed with a fecundity that no other plant possesses ...."
• "Here the chickweed is a fetich precisely as is the flint arrow head which is put into the same decoction, in order that in the same mysterious manner its sharp cutting qualities may be communicated to the liquid and enable it to cut the worms into pieces."