Arctic mouse-ear

English

Noun

Arctic mouse-ear (plural Arctic mouse-ears)

  1. A perennial herb, Cerastium arcticum, growing in parts of the Arctic.
    • 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 154:
      Dainty Arctic mouse ears with their distinctive double-lobed petals speckle the heath close by my own roost, paper-thin flowers springing from a tangled mat of foliage that forms little islands in the grass.
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