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

Turning his horse he commenced searching for the flower amid that sea of grass, and the yellow blossoms of cinquefoil, and stitchwort, and water-lilies.

From The Yellow Rose by J?kai, M?r

Here is blue speedwell and the delicately pencilled stitchwort with its pure snow-white blossoms and delicate green leaves.

From Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children by Houghton, W. (William)

Nor could that word of Tennyson be properly used of any pure white flower—the stitchwort for instance; nor of any white and yellow flower like the Marguerite.

From Birds and Man by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)