cerastium alpinum

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   widespread in the Arctic and on mountains in Europe

   SynonymsAlpine mouse-earArctic mouse-ear

   Broadermouse-ear chickweed

Questions about cerastium alpinum

What does cerastium alpinum mean?

cerastium alpinum means "widespread in the Arctic and on mountains in Europe".

What is another word for cerastium alpinum?

Close synonyms include Alpine mouse-ear, Arctic mouse-ear. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cerastium alpinum a common word?

cerastium alpinum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.