field chickweed

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   densely tufted perennial chickweed of north temperate zone

   Synonymsfield mouse-earCerastium arvense

   Broadermouse-ear chickweed

Questions about field chickweed

What does field chickweed mean?

field chickweed means "densely tufted perennial chickweed of north temperate zone".

What is another word for field chickweed?

Close synonyms include field mouse-ear, Cerastium arvense. 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 field chickweed a common word?

field 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.