beggar lice
1. Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing • Syn: beggar's 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's lice • Hypernyms: subshrub, suffrutex • Hyponyms: beggarweed, Desmodium tortuosum, Desmodium purpureum • Member Holonyms: Desmodium, genus Desmodium
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