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

I see in the fields and meadows the bird's foot trefoil, the oxeye daisy, the lady smocks, sweet hemlock, butterbur, the stitchwort, and the orchis, the "long purpled" of Shakespeare.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.

"No, that's stitchwort," said Sylvia, who had learnt a little botany at home, and liked to air her knowledge.

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

The thorn-trees were all in bloom, and the banks were covered with the white stitchwort and blue speedwell.

From The Story of Bawn by Tynan, Katharine

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 Kingsley, Charles

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 Jefferies, Richard