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Beggar's lice
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What's The Definition Of Beggar's lice?
[n] any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments
[n] Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing Synonyms | Synonyms for Beggar's lice: beggar lice | tick trefoil Related Terms | Find terms related to Beggar's lice: See Also | beggarweed | Desmodium | Desmodium purpureum | Desmodium tortuosum | genus Desmodium | genus Hackelia | genus Lappula | Hackelia | Lappula | stickweed | subshrub | suffrutex Beggar's lice In Webster's Dictionary \Beg"gar's lice`\ (Bot.)
The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species
of {Echinospermum} and {Cynoglossum}) which cling to the
clothing of those who brush by them.
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