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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

beggar-lice

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01 n. any of various Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing.
  1. 1.
    any of various Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing.
  2. 2.
    any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments.
Syn. beggar's lice, beggar's-lice, beggar lice. — Syn. -- tick trefoil, tick-trefoil, beggar's-lice.