Definition of Indian chickweed

1. Noun. Annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North America.

Exact synonyms: Carpetweed, Molluga Verticillata
Group relationships: Genus Molluga, Molluga
Generic synonyms: Weed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indian Chickweed

Indian apple
Indian arrowroot
Indian banyan
Indian bean
Indian beech
Indian beet
Indian blackwood
Indian blanket
Indian breadroot
Indian buffalo
Indian burn
Indian burns
Indian capital
Indian carp
Indian chickweed (current term)
Indian chief
Indian chieftain
Indian chocolate
Indian cholera
Indian club
Indian cobra
Indian coral tree
Indian corn
Indian cress
Indian crocus
Indian currant
Indian elephant
Indian elephants
Indian fig

Literary usage of Indian chickweed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 2/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"Indian chickweed.—The carpet-weed ( Mollugo verticillata) . Indian cigar tree.—The common catalpa (Catalpa catalpa), a name in use in Pennsylvania, ..."

2. Catalogue of the Phænogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of Worcester by Joseph Jackson (1883)
"Forked Chickweed. dichotoma, Michx. Worcester, Eaton. MOLLUGO, L. Indian chickweed. verticillata, L. Common in cultivated grounds. ..."

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