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Definition of Chickweeds
1. chickweed [n] - See also: chickweed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chickweeds
Literary usage of Chickweeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"Corn-cockles, chickweeds and carnations. The pink family contains about twenty
five Minnesota species. Herein are the corn-cockles, the campions or ..."
2. Reports of the Survey (1899)
"Corn-cockles, chickweeds and carnations. The pink family contains about twenty
five Minnesota species. Herein are the corn-cockles, the campions or ..."
3. Wild Flowers of the North American Mountains by Julia W. Henshaw (1915)
"This is quite the prettiest and most attractive of all the chickweeds, ...
All the chickweeds are white. Like the meek they certainly inherit the earth. ..."
4. Mountain and moor by John Ellor Taylor, Josiah Wood Whymper (1879)
"The other Alpine plants of this order are more nearly related to the chickweeds,
such as Cerastium alpinum, found at great heights on the mountains of Wales ..."
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