mouse-ear chickweed

2 definitions found

mouse-ear chickweed - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mouse-ear \Mouse"-ear`\, n. (Bot.)
        (a) The forget-me-not (Myosotis palustris) and other
            species of the same genus.
        (b) A European species of hawkweed (Hieracium  Pilosella
            ).
            [1913 Webster]
  
     Mouse-ear chickweed, a name of two common species of
        chickweed (Cerastium vulgarium, and Cerastium  viscosum
        ).
  
     Mouse-ear cress, a low cruciferous herb (Sisymbrium  Thaliana
        ). All these are low herbs with soft, oval, or
        obovate leaves, whence the name.
        [1913 Webster]

mouse-ear chickweed - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mouse-ear chickweed
      n 1: any of various plants related to the common chickweed [syn:
           mouse-ear chickweed, mouse eared chickweed, mouse ear
           , clammy chickweed, chickweed]