common chickweed

1. 1.

   a common low-growing annual garden weed with small white flowers; cosmopolitan; so-called because it is eaten by chickens

   SynonymsStellaria media

   Broaderchickweed

Questions about common chickweed

What does common chickweed mean?

common chickweed means "a common low-growing annual garden weed with small white flowers; cosmopolitan; so-called because it is eaten by chickens".

What is another word for common chickweed?

Close synonyms include Stellaria media. 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 common chickweed a common word?

common chickweed 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.