Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants, natural order Caryophyllaceæ, consisting of pubescent herbs with small leaves and white flowers, the petals bifid, and the cylindrical capsules often curved, opening regularly by twice as many teeth as there are styles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a genus of weedy plants of the pink family, comprising the mouse-ear chickweeds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
plants , of the genus Cerastium, such as mouse-eared chickweed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun mouse-eared chickweed
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Examples
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I called the Knot Garden Boundaried Exuberance~The allium foliage was fantastic against the ground covering cerastium.
Touring With Friends-Ledbury And Hampton Court Castle, Herefordshire « Fairegarden 2010
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In Denver, white clover, raoulia (Raoulia australis), mouse ear cerastium (Cerastium ssp.) and pennywort (Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides).
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The ajuga, creeping jenny, cerastium and euphorbia had other ideas!
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Now the cerastium is entering, a really nice contrast.
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There is a blue ajuga bloom and the white flowers of cerastium on its left side.
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The shed, dianthus and cerastium look appealing as background to S.
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A group shot of regular ajuga reptans, some lavender pansies, a young hellebore, cerastium and a smidge of dianthus in the background.
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Sedum spectabile ‘October Daphne’ is planted in a concrete shell fountain base with foxglove volunteers, thyme and cerastium.
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On two san diego luxury of rhythm and two isopropanol of maximum displeased lapp, perpetually cerastium sunfish a gnarly lozal of lancelike magnetron in introspectiveness.
Rational Review 2009
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Ajuga reptans in bloom with cerastium far left, scilla peruviana in bud and dwarf ribbon grass, phalaris arundinacea picta ‘Dwarf’s Garters’.
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