| NOUN | plant | beggar lice, beggar's lice | Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing |
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| plant | beggar lice, tick trefoil, beggar's lice | any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments |
| Meaning | Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing. | |
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| Synonym | beggar's lice | |
| Member of | Hackelia, genus Hackelia, Lappula, genus Lappula | stickweed |
| Broader | stickweed | Any of several herbaceous plants having seeds that cling to clothing |
| Meaning | Any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments. | |
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| Synonyms | tick trefoil, beggar's lice | |
| Member of | Desmodium, genus Desmodium | beggarweed |
| Narrower | beggarweed, Desmodium tortuosum, Desmodium purpureum | West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil |
| Broader | subshrub, suffrutex | low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base |
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