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Beggar's lice

noun

Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing. Synonym: beggar lice.

Any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments. Synonyms: beggar lice, tick trefoil.

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Words linked to "Beggar's lice" : Desmodium, genus Lappula, Hackelia, suffrutex, genus Desmodium, Desmodium purpureum, beggar lice, Desmodium tortuosum, stickweed, genus Hackelia, subshrub, Lappula, beggarweed