chickweed

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chick·weed

noun \-ˌwēd\

Definition of CHICKWEED

: any of various low-growing small-leaved weedy plants of the pink family (especially genera Cerastium and Stellaria); especially : a cosmopolitan weed (Stelleria media) naturalized in the United States from Eurasia

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First Known Use of CHICKWEED

14th century

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