Akademik

beggar's-ticks

noun

any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing

• Syn: ↑bur marigold, ↑burr marigold, ↑beggar-ticks, ↑sticktight

• Hypernyms: ↑subshrub, ↑suffrutex

• Hyponyms:

↑Spanish needles, ↑Bidens bipinnata, ↑tickseed sunflower, ↑Bidens coronata, ↑Bidens trichosperma, ↑European beggar-ticks, ↑trifid beggar-ticks, ↑trifid bur marigold, ↑Bidens tripartita, ↑swampy beggar-ticks, ↑Bidens connata

• Member Holonyms: ↑Bidens, ↑genus Bidens

• Part Meronyms: ↑Spanish needles, ↑beggar-ticks

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noun plural but singular or plural in construction

see beggar-ticks

Useful english dictionary. 2012.