MOUSE EARED CHICKWEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mouse eared chickweed mean? 

• MOUSE EARED CHICKWEED (noun)
  The noun MOUSE EARED CHICKWEED has 1 sense:

1. any of various plants related to the common chickweed

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOUSE EARED CHICKWEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various plants related to the common chickweed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("mouse eared 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 eared 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 eared chickweed" is a member of...):

Cerastium; genus Cerastium (mouse-eared chickweed)