chickweed

English

Stellaria media

Wikispecies

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• chick-weed

Etymology

From Middle English chykwed, chykewode, chike wed, chikewed, chekwede, a variant of chykynwede, chekyn-wede, cheken-wede (literally “chicken-weed”), equivalent to chick +‎ weed.

Noun

chickweed (usually uncountable, plural chickweeds)

1. Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.
   1. especially common chickweed (Stellaria media), a common, edible weed in North America and Europe.
      • 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:

        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.

   2. Stellaria pro parte
   3. Cerastium (mouse-ear chickweed)
2. Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:
   1. Ageratum conyzoides
   2. Holosteum (jagged chickweed)
   3. Moenchia (upright chickweed)
   4. Paronychia spp.

Derived terms

• chickweed wintergreen
• red chickweed
• sea chickweed

 

Translations

herb

• Bulgarian: врабчови чревца (vrabčovi črevca)
• Catalan: morró m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繁縷 / 繁缕 (zh) (fánlǚ)

• Czech: ptačinec m
• Danish: fuglegræs n
• Dutch: hoornbloem (nl), muur (nl)
• Faroese: høsnagras n, høsnagørn f
• Finnish: pihatähtimö (fi)
• French: mouron blanc (fr) m
• Galician: muruxa f
• German: Vogelmiere (de) f
• Hungarian: tyúkhúr (hu)
• Icelandic: haugarfi (is) m
• Irish: fliodh
• Italian: centocchio m
• Japanese: 繁縷 (ja) (はこべ, hakobe, はこべら, hakobera)
• Lithuanian: žliūgė f
• Maori: kohukohu
• Norwegian: vassarve c
• Polish: gwiazdnica f
• Portuguese: morrião-dos-passarinhos m, morugem (pt) f
• Romanian: răcovină (ro) f
• Russian: алзи́на f (alzína), мокри́чник (ru) m (mokríčnik)
• Spanish: capiquí m, pamplina (es) f, hierba gallinera f
• Swedish: våtarv c
• Turkish: kuş otu (tr), serçe dili
• Welsh: brechlys m, gwlydd m pl
• Yiddish: שטערנדל n (shterndl)