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common chickweed
1. Any of several, typically relatively broad-leaved, plants of the genus Stellaria (family Caryophyllaceae); spec. (more fully common chickweed) S. media, a low-growing or straggling plant having ovate leaves and small flowers with deeply cleft white petals, which is a common arable and garden weed and can be fed to chickens and other birds. In early use also: any of various other plants which bear some resemblance to common chickweed or can be fed to birds, including pimpernel ( Anagallis arvensis), speedwells (genus Veronica), mouse-ears (genus Cerastium), and groundsel ( Senecio vulgaris) (now only with distinguishing word; cf. sense 2).Cf. earlier chickenweed n.Members of the genus Stellaria having narrower leaves are now usually called stitchworts.
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?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 64v (MED) Pympirnell. beryth a rede sangwyne colour and leves leke to chekwede.
1511 Kalender of Shepherdes (new ed.) sig. M.ivv Take chyckewede, clythers, ale, and otemele, and make a potage therwith.
1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Asine Chykwede.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 50 Chickeweede hath sundry upright, rounde, and knobby stalkes.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 491 The Chickweedes are greene in winter.
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 69 in Sylva Give them [sc. Birds]..Beets, Groundsell, Chick-weed.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 302 Cliver or chickweed..twists about the Wheat, like the Tyne-weed.
1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 43 Turnips among which chickweed grew luxuriously.
1874 J. Geikie Great Ice Age v. 65 The purple lichnis and white-starred chickweed..blossom and bloom under the fleeting sunshine.
1915 T. W. Woodhead Study Plants xix. 242 Some, like the Chickweeds, are able to pollinate themselves.
1992 Org. Gardening July 50 Common chickweed (Stellaria media) is a winter annual.
2010 Observer 21 Mar. (Guide to Pets) 23/2 They [sc. canaries] need green stuff, such as chickweed and dandelion.
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