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chickweeds

chickweeds is the plural 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)

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Phrases with chickweeds

Questions about chickweeds

What is chickweeds the plural of?
Chickweeds is the plural of chickweed.

Words near chickweeds in the dictionary

  1. Chicksaw
  2. Chicksaws
  3. chicksploitation
  4. chickweed
  5. chickweed wintergreen
  6. chickweeds
  7. chicky
  8. Chiclayo
  9. chicle
  10. chiclet
  11. chiclet keyboard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chickweeds (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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