English noun: beggar lice | |||
1. | beggar lice (plant) Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing | ||
Synonyms | beggar's lice | ||
Broader (hypernym) | stickweed | ||
Member meronym | genus 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 | ||
Synonyms | beggar's lice, tick trefoil | ||
Broader (hypernym) | subshrub, suffrutex | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | beggarweed, Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum | ||
Member meronym | Desmodium, genus Desmodium | ||