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Mouse-eared chickweed
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cerastium
Word definitions for cerastium in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cerastium \Cerastium\ n. a genus of weedy plants of the pink family, comprising the mouse-ear chickweeds. Syn: genus Cerastium .
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Cerastium is a genus of annual, winter annual, or perennial plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae . They are commonly called mouse-ear chickweed . Species are found nearly worldwide but the greatest concentration is in the northern temperate regions. ...
Usage examples of cerastium.
The name 'Mouse-ear' is also applied to 'Mouse-ear Chickweed,' a plant of the genus Cerastium, to a plant of the genus Myosotis, valued for its medicinal properties, and to various kinds of Woundworts.
Several plants have been named Chickweed, one of them a plant belonging to the Purslane family and four species of Cerastium -the Mouse Ear Chickweeds - but the name especially belongs to the plant in question, Stellaria media, the ubiquitous garden weed, of which our caged birds are as fond as they are of Groundsel, a taste shared by young chickens, to whose diet it makes a wholesome addition.