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TICK TREFOIL

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 I. (noun) 

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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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tick trefoil" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tick trefoil"):

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

Holonyms ("tick trefoil" is a member of...):

Desmodium; genus Desmodium (beggarweed; tick trefoil)

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