Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several low-growing plants of the genus Stellaria of the pink family, having small white flowers with five deeply notched petals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of several plants of the chickweed or starwort genus, Stellaria.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) See
stichwort .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A kind of
chickweed , Stellaria holostea.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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In the parish lanes, sunlit banks of red campion, white stitchwort, bluebells and ferns are dusty from earth eroded by burrowing rabbits and stirred up by traffic.
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The line between Edge Wood and recently cultivated fields was white with cow parsley, stitchwort and wild garlic.
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Bank of bluebells and stitchwort along the edge of a wood.....
Archive 2010-05-01 Carla 2010
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Bank of bluebells and stitchwort along the edge of a wood.....
Bluebell woods Carla 2010
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As soon as the wind gets up, the insects disperse into the wide clearing of bracken, bluebells, stitchwort, foxgloves and saplings of silver birch before the cabin.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The sudden blue of jonquil jumps out of the trees, against pure white strata of stitchwort.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The brilliant white flowers of stitchwort form drifts along hedgerows and verges....
May-time Carla 2009
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As soon as the wind gets up, the insects disperse into the wide clearing of bracken, bluebells, stitchwort, foxgloves and saplings of silver birch before the cabin.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The brilliant white flowers of stitchwort form drifts along hedgerows and verges....
Archive 2009-05-01 Carla 2009
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The sudden blue of jonquil jumps out of the trees, against pure white strata of stitchwort.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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