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1. the seed of bur marigolds

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

↑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

1. : a plant of the genus Bidens

2. : the fruit of beggar-ticks (sense 1)

3. : beggar's-lice

4. : a plant of the genus Agrimonia

5. : the fruit of beggar-ticks (sense 4)

/beg"euhr tiks'/, n., pl. beggar-ticks. (used with a sing. or pl. v.)

1. any of several composite plants of the genus Bidens, having rayless yellow flowers and barbed achenes that cling to clothing.

2. the achenes of these plants.

3. any of several other plants having seeds or fruits that cling to clothing, as those of the genus Desmodium.

Also, beggar's-ticks.

[1850-55, Amer.]