Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chickweed

/ˈtʃɪkwiːd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.79 in modern English

Syllables: chick-weed
IPA: /ˈtʃɪkwiːd/

24

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.

Uncountable

noun

Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.

Uncountable

noun

Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.

Uncountable

noun

Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:

Uncountable

noun

Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:

Uncountable

noun

Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:

Uncountable

noun

Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"I look at the little sprigs of chickweed trembling among the bean shoots and I am strangely moved. Such steadfastness! Such yearning! They want to live too. That is all they ask: to have their little moment in the world."

Etymology

From Middle English chykwed, chykewode, chike wed, chikewed, chekwede, a variant of chykynwede, chekyn-wede, cheken-wede (literally “chicken-weed”), equivalent to chick + weed. Etymonline claims the name was apparently applied to many plants fit for chicken feed, which were called in Old English cicene mete (“chicken food”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: chykwed

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

chickweeds (plural) chick-weed (alternative)

Phrases

chickweed wintergreen mouse-eared chickweed red chickweed sea chickweed

Synonyms

mouse-ear chickweed mouse eared chickweed mouse ear clammy chickweed

Questions

How do you pronounce chickweed?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtʃɪkwiːd/.
What does chickweed mean?: Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.
Where does chickweed come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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