English Explanatory Dictionary

chickweed

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.
  2. especially common chickweed (Stellaria media), a common, edible weed in North America and Europe.
  3. Stellaria pro parte
  4. Cerastium (mouse-ear chickweed)
  5. Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:
  6. Ageratum conyzoides
  7. Holosteum (jagged chickweed)
  8. Moenchia (upright chickweed)
  9. Paronychia spp. (nailwort, whitlow-wort)

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-chickweed.wav

Word forms

chickweed chickweeds 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. Etymonline claims the name was apparently applied to many plants fit for chicken feed, which were called in Old English cicene mete (“chicken food”).

Derived words

chickweed wintergreen mouse-eared chickweed red chickweed sea chickweed

Translations

Bulgarian: врабчови чревца Catalan: morró Chinese Mandarin: 繁縷 /繁缕 Czech: ptačinec Danish: fuglegræs Dutch: hoornbloem Dutch: muur Faroese: høsnagras Faroese: høsnagørn Finnish: pihatähtimö French: mouron blanc Galician: muruxa German: Vogelmiere Hungarian: tyúkhúr Icelandic: haugarfi Irish: fliodh Italian: centocchio Japanese: 繁縷 Lithuanian: žliūgė Māori: kohukohu Norwegian: vassarve Polish: gwiazdnica Portuguese: morrião-dos-passarinhos Portuguese: morugem Romanian: răcovină Russian: алзи́на Russian: мокри́чник Spanish: capiquí Spanish: pamplina Spanish: hierba gallinera Spanish: álsine Swedish: våtarv Turkish: kuş otu Turkish: serçe dili Turkish: tavukotu Turkish: kanarya otu Welsh: brechlys Welsh: gwlydd Yiddish: שטערנדל
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