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/bˈɛgərz laɪs/ Listen

Beggar's lice

noun

Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing. Synonym: beggar lice.

Any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments. Synonyms: beggar lice, tick trefoil.

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Words linked to "Beggar's lice" : Desmodium, Lappula, stickweed, Desmodium purpureum, genus Desmodium, Hackelia, subshrub, genus Hackelia, Desmodium tortuosum, genus Lappula, suffrutex, beggarweed