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    MOUSE-EAR CHICKWEED

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of various plants related to the common chickweedplay

    Synonyms:

    chickweed; clammy chickweed; mouse-ear chickweed; mouse ear; mouse eared chickweed

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("mouse-ear chickweed" is a kind of...):

    herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mouse-ear chickweed"):

    Cerastium arvense; field chickweed; field mouse-ear (densely tufted perennial chickweed of north temperate zone)

    Cerastium tomentosum; love-in-a-mist; snow-in-summer (chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers)

    Alpine mouse-ear; Arctic mouse-ear; Cerastium alpinum (widespread in the Arctic and on mountains in Europe)

    Holonyms ("mouse-ear chickweed" is a member of...):

    Cerastium; genus Cerastium (mouse-eared chickweed)

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