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beggar lice
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| beggar's ticks
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| beggar-lice
| beggar-my-neighbor
beggar lice
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun beggar lice has 2 senses
- beggar lice(n = noun.plant) beggar's lice - Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing; Array is a member of genus hackelia, genus lappula, hackelia, lappula
- beggar lice(n = noun.plant) beggar's lice, tick trefoil - any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments; Array is a member of desmodium, genus desmodium
is a kind of stickweed
has particulars: beggarweed, desmodium purpureum, desmodium tortuosum
is a kind of subshrub, suffrutex
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