chickweed

plural chickweeds · alternative chick-weed

1. Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.
   1. uncountableusuallyespecially common chickweed (Stellaria media), a common, edible weed in North America and Europe.

      I look at the little sprigs of chickweed trembling among the bean shoots and I am strangely moved. Such steadfastness! Such yearning! They want to live too. That is all they ask: to have their little moment in the world.

      1993, John Banville, Ghosts

   2. uncountableusuallyStellaria pro parte
   3. uncountableusuallyCerastium (mouse-ear chickweed)
2. Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:
   1. uncountableusuallyAgeratum conyzoides
   2. uncountableusuallyHolosteum (jagged chickweed)
   3. uncountableusuallyMoenchia (upright chickweed)
   4. uncountableusuallyParonychia spp. (nailwort, whitlow-wort)