Meanings
plural Arctic mouse-ears
- A perennial herb, Cerastium arcticum, growing in parts of the Arctic.
Dainty Arctic mouse ears with their distinctive double-lobed petals speckle the heath close by my own roost, paper-thin flowers springing from a tangled mat of foliage that forms little islands in the grass.
2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 154
Synonyms & antonyms
nounwidespread in the Arctic and on mountains in Europe
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Welsh clust-y-llygoden ogleddol
- clust-y-llygoden ogleddolCerastium arcticum
Cite this entry
Arctic mouse-ear. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Arctic%20mouse-ear
“Arctic mouse-ear.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Arctic%20mouse-ear. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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