beggar's lice

Noun
  1. Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing (synset 112840873)
    is a type of: stickweed - any of several herbaceous plants having seeds that cling to clothing
    belongs to: genus hackelia, genus lappula, hackelia, lappula - stickweed; beggar's lice
    same as: beggar lice
  2. Any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments (synset 112547021)
    is a type of: subshrub, suffrutex - low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base
    subtypes: beggarweed, desmodium purpureum, desmodium tortuosum - West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil
    belongs to: desmodium, genus desmodium - beggarweed; tick trefoil
    same as: beggar lice, tick trefoil

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