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BEGGAR'S LICE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments

Synonyms:

beggar's lice; beggar lice; tick trefoil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("beggar's lice" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beggar's lice"):

beggarweed; Desmodium purpureum; Desmodium tortuosum (West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil)

Holonyms ("beggar's lice" is a member of...):

Desmodium; genus Desmodium (beggarweed; tick trefoil)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing

Synonyms:

beggar's lice; beggar lice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("beggar's lice" is a kind of...):

stickweed (any of several herbaceous plants having seeds that cling to clothing)

Holonyms ("beggar's lice" is a member of...):

genus Hackelia; genus Lappula; Hackelia; Lappula (stickweed; beggar's lice)

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