Definitions for Cerastium

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Cerastium ce·ras·ti·um

Spelling: [suh-ras-tee-uh m]

IPA: /səˈræs ti əm/

Cerastium is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 899 anagrams from letters in Cerastium (aceimrstu).

Definitions for Cerastium

noun

1. any of various low-growing plants of the genus Cerastium, having leaves covered with whitish or grayish down and small white flowers, and including mouse-ear chickweed and snow-in-summer.

Origin of Cerastium

New Latin (Linnaeus) Greek kerást(ēs) horned (see cerastes) + New Latin -ium -ium; so called from the horn-shaped seed capsules of some sp

Examples for Cerastium

The large-flowered cerastium (C. alpinum) was here every where in abundance, and the prickly Lycopodium.

Of the less conspicuous genera, the chick-weeds (cerastium and Stellaria) are the most familiar.

In fig. 16 the biparous cyme is represented in the flowering branch of cerastium.

This is the prettiest cerastium, though not so "mousy" as some, and grows in dry as well as moist situations.