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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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