noun
1. Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing
• Syn: ↑beggar lice
• Hypernyms: ↑stickweed
• Member Holonyms: ↑Hackelia, ↑genus Hackelia, ↑Lappula, ↑genus Lappula
2. any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments
• Syn: ↑tick trefoil, ↑beggar lice
• Hyponyms: ↑beggarweed, ↑Desmodium tortuosum, ↑Desmodium purpureum
• Member Holonyms: ↑Desmodium, ↑genus Desmodium
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beggar's lice, beggar's ticks or beggar ticks plural noun
1. Any of various plants with burrs
2. The burrs themselves
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Main Entry: ↑beg
Useful english dictionary. 2012.