chickweed

noun

chick·weed ˈchik-ˌwēd

: 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

Examples of chickweed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Next, my advice to reuse soil resulted in chickweeds growing in some containers. —

Jeff Lowenfels | Alaska Gardening and Growing, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2023 Fortunately, chickweed can be used as a cover crop up until flowers start to appear. —

Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2023 Dandelions, clover, chickweed, and bittercress all fall into this category. —

Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2023 Fortunately, chickweed and other weed seedlings are easy to remove. —

Jeff Lowenfels | Alaska Gardening and Growing, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2023 This is chickweed and hairy bittercress. —

Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 25 Feb. 2023 Key Ingredients: organic olive fruit oil, organic shea butter, organic beeswax, organic jojoba seed oil, organic lavender flower oil, organic tea tree leaf oil, organic calendula flower extract, organic St. John’s wort extract, organic chickweed extract, and organic plantain extract. —

Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 21 Sep. 2022 There is no easier time to pull chickweed given its size. —

Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2022 In spring, the southern Appalachian forests are flooded with light (maples, oaks, and tulip trees are just beginning to bud) and wildflowers—buttercups and purple trilliums, toothworts and mayapples, the neat white radials of great chickweed. —

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