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mouse-ear chickweed

DEFINITIONS OF: mouse-ear chickweed

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n any of various plants related to the common chickweed

Synonyms:
chickweed, clammy chickweed, mouse ear, mouse eared chickweed
Types:
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
Type 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
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