beggar's lice

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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
• Hypernyms:
subshrub, suffrutex
• Hyponyms:
beggarweed, Desmodium tortuosum, Desmodium purpureum
• Member Holonyms:
Desmodium, genus Desmodium