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chick-weed

chick-weed is the alternative form of chickweed.

Meaning of chickweed

Noun

chickweed (usually uncountable, plural chickweeds)

  1. (usually) especially common chickweed (Stellaria media), a common, edible weed in North America and Europe.
    • I look at the little sprigs of chickweed trembling among the bean shoots and I am strangely moved. Such steadfastness! Such yearning! They want to live too. That is all they ask: to have their little moment in the world.1993, John Banville, Ghosts
  2. (usually) Stellaria pro parte
  3. (usually) Cerastium (mouse-ear chickweed)
  4. (usually) Ageratum conyzoides
  5. (usually) Holosteum (jagged chickweed)
  6. (usually) Moenchia (upright chickweed)

See all 7 meanings of chickweed

Forms of chick-weed

pluralchick-weeds

Questions about chick-weed

What is chick-weed the alternative form of?
Chick-weed is the alternative form of chickweed.

Words near chick-weed in the dictionary

  1. chick-friend
  2. chick-friends
  3. chick-lit
  4. chick-pea
  5. chick-peas
  6. chick-weed
  7. chick-weeds
  8. chickabiddies
  9. chickabiddy
  10. chickadee
  11. chickadees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chick-weed (page history and authors); chickweed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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