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stitchwort

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stitch·wort  (stchwûrt, -wôrt)
n.
Any of several low-growing plants of the genus Stellaria, having opposite leaves and small, white, star-shaped flowers.

[Middle English, from Old English sticwyrt, agrimony : stice, stich (from its alleged ability to cure sharp pains in the side); see stitch + wyrt, plant; see wort1.]

stitchwort [ˈstɪtʃˌwɜːt]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of several low-growing N temperate herbaceous plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Stellaria, having small white star-shaped flowers
[so named because it was once thought to be a remedy for stitches in the side]
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Noun1.stitchwort - low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowersstitchwort - low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side
chickweed - any of various plants of the genus Stellaria


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Gardeners have also introduced red campion, nettle-leafed bellflowers, greater stitchwort, foxglove and agrimony to the copse.
Lanes appear even narrower now that ferns, campion and popping stitchwort overwhelm hedge banks' fading bluebells, and tendrils of honeysuckle and bedstraw reach for the light.
Alison J Best's exhibition, called Blossoming Out: The Art of the Garden, is in her own words a celebration of the joy of flowers and plants with her depictions of snowdrops seen growing beside a road in Burnopfield, forsythia, iris, Canterbury bells, honeysuckle, daisy, colchicums, stitchwort, clover, toadflax, spring hellebore, foxglove, star of Bethlehem, wood anemone, rudbeckia, tulip, celandine, speedwell, daffodil and philadelphus.
 
 
 
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