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

Type of: stickweed, subshrub, suffrutex

Part of: Desmodium, genus Desmodium, genus Hackelia, genus Lappula, Hackelia, Lappula