stitchwort

American  

[stich-wurt, -wawrt] / ˈstɪtʃˌwɜrt, -ˌwɔrt /

noun

1. any of several plants belonging to the genus Stellaria, of the pink family, having white flowers.

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stitchwort British  

/ ˈstɪtʃˌwɜːt /

noun

1. any of several low-growing N temperate herbaceous plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Stellaria, having small white star-shaped flowers

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Etymology

Origin of stitchwort

1225–75; Middle English stichewort, Old English sticwyrt agrimony. See stitch, wort ²

Example Sentences

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stitchwort

The hedgerows had burst into tender green, and the banks were spangled with stitchwort and celandine stars.

From A Terrible Tomboy by Angela Brazil

Six kinds of clovers and vetches; and besides, dandelion, and rattle, and oxeye, and sorrel, and plantain, and buttercup, and a little stitchwort, and pignut, and mouse-ear hawkweed, too, which nobody wants.

From Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley

On May 1 a stitchwort was in flower, a plant that marks the period distinctly.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies

"And my mother told me it was stitchwort."

From The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story by Angela Brazil

Coming out from the stitchwort and grasses, the spiders often ran over his shining dark brown surface, something the colour of glazed earthenware.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies