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Mouse-ear   Listen
noun
Mouse-ear  n.  (Bot.)
(a)
The forget-me-not (Myosotis palustris) and other species of the same genus.
(b)
A European species of hawkweed (Hieracium Pilosella).
Mouse-ear chickweed, a name of two common species of chickweed (Cerastium vulgarium, and Cerastium viscosum).
Mouse-ear cress, a low cruciferous herb (Sisymbrium Thaliana). All these are low herbs with soft, oval, or obovate leaves, whence the name.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Mouse-ear" Quotes from Famous Books



... glad that the night was not longer, and resolved to take advantage of the early morning to fulfil a commission of Lady Oglethorpe, whose elder children, Lewis and Theophilus, had the whooping-cough. Mouse-ear, namely, the little sulphur-coloured hawk-weed, was, and still is, accounted a specific, and Anne had been requested to bring a supply—a thing easily done, since it grew plentifully in the court of ...
— A Reputed Changeling • Charlotte M. Yonge



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