Meaning of MOUSE EAR
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- [n] any of various plants related to the common chickweed
- [n] small perennial herb having bright blue or white flowers
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| | Synonyms: | | chickweed, clammy chickweed, forget-me-not, mouse eared chickweed, mouse-ear chickweed, Myosotis scorpiodes |
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| | See Also: | | Alpine mouse-ear, Arctic mouse-ear, Cerastium, Cerastium alpinum, Cerastium arvense, Cerastium tomentosum, field chickweed, field mouse-ear, genus Cerastium, genus Myosotis, herb, herbaceous plant, love-in-a-mist, Myosotis, snow-in-summer | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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}).
{Mouse-ear chickweed}, a name of two common species of
chickweed ({Cerastium vulgarium}, and {C. viscosum}).
{Mouse-ear cress}, a low cruciferous herb ({Sisymbrium
Thaliana}). All these are low herbs with soft, oval, or
obovate leaves, whence the name.
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