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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a common low-growing annual garden weed with small white flowers; cosmopolitan; so-called because it is eaten by chickens;
[syn: common chickweed, Stellaria media]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Chickweed \Chick"weed`\ (-w[=e]d`), n. (Bot.) The name of several caryophyllaceous weeds, especially Stellaria media, the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Stellaria media n 1: a common low-growing annual garden weed with small white flowers; cosmopolitan; so-called because it is eaten by chickens [syn: common chickweed, Stellaria media]