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English noun: beggar lice

1. beggar lice (plant) Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing


Synonymsbeggar's lice


Broader (hypernym)stickweed


Member meronymgenus Hackelia, genus Lappula, Hackelia, Lappula

2. beggar lice (plant) any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments


Synonymsbeggar's lice, tick trefoil


Broader (hypernym)subshrub, suffrutex


Narrower (hyponym)beggarweed, Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum


Member meronymDesmodium, genus Desmodium









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