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beggar's lice
beg·gar's lice (bĕg′ərz)n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)1. Any of several plants, such as bur marigold, stickseed, or tick trefoil, having small, often prickly fruits that cling readily to clothing or animal fur.2. The fruit of any of these plants.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  beggar's lice - Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothingbeggar licegenus Hackelia, genus Lappula, Hackelia, Lappula - stickweed; beggar's licestickweed - any of several herbaceous plants having seeds that cling to clothing | | 2. |  beggar's lice - any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or lomentstick trefoil, beggar liceDesmodium, genus Desmodium - beggarweed; tick trefoilbeggarweed, Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum - West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soilsubshrub, suffrutex - low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base |
beggar's lice
Synonyms for beggar's licenoun Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothingSynonymsRelated Words- genus Hackelia
- genus Lappula
- Hackelia
- Lappula
- stickweed
noun any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or lomentsSynonymsRelated Words- Desmodium
- genus Desmodium
- beggarweed
- Desmodium purpureum
- Desmodium tortuosum
- subshrub
- suffrutex
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