mouse-ear

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English

mouse-ear chickweed (Cerastium vulgatum)

Etymology

From Middle English mousere, musere, equivalent to mouse +‎ ear, in reference to the shape of the leaves.

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Noun

mouse-ear (plural mouse-ears)

  1. A type of small hawkweed native to Eurasia (Pilosella officinarum), commonly found on dry grasslands.
    • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 195:
      Mouse-ear is a low herb creeping upon the ground by small strings like the Strawberry plant, whereby it shoots forth small roots […]
  2. A plant of the genus Cerastium (mouse-ear chickweed).
  3. A forget-me-not (genus Myosotis).

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