mouse-ear : Idioms & Phrases

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Mouse-ear chickweed

  • noun any of various plants related to the common chickweed
    mouse eared chickweed; clammy chickweed; mouse ear; chickweed.
WordNet
  • a name of two common species of chickweed (Cerastium vulgarium, and C. viscosum).
Webster 1913

Mouse-ear cress

  • noun a small invasive self-pollinating weed with small white flowers; much studied by plant geneticists; the first higher plant whose complete genome sequence was described
    Arabidopsis thaliana.
WordNet
  • a low cruciferous herb (Sisymbrium Thaliana). All these are low herbs with soft, oval, or obovate leaves, whence the name.
Webster 1913