COMMON CHICKWEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common chickweed mean? 

• COMMON CHICKWEED (noun)
  The noun COMMON CHICKWEED has 1 sense:

1. a common low-growing annual garden weed with small white flowers; cosmopolitan; so-called because it is eaten by chickens

  Familiarity information: COMMON CHICKWEED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON CHICKWEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A common low-growing annual garden weed with small white flowers; cosmopolitan; so-called because it is eaten by chickens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

common chickweed; Stellaria media

Hypernyms ("common chickweed" is a kind of...):

chickweed (any of various plants of the genus Stellaria)