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 (Stellaria media) naturalized in the U.S. from Eurasia
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The first known use of chickweed was in the 15th century
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