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stitchwort
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˈstɪtʃ.wɜːt/ us /ˈstɪtʃ.wɝːt/
any of several small wild plants with small white flowers :
The hedges are coming alive with cow parsley and stitchwort.
The stitchworts are edible and can be boiled and eaten as a vegetable.
Crossing the valley fields, I passed banks of stitchwort and Queen Anne's lace.
The greater stitchwort has white flowers whose petals are divided to halfway.
The white flowers of greater stitchwort have been out for six weeks or more.
The lesser stitchwort has smaller flowers and often grows tangled in the long grass.
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