beggar's lice

beg·gar's lice (bgrz)

n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)

1. Any of several plants, such as the stickseed, having small, often prickly fruits that cling readily to clothing or animal fur.

2. The fruit of any of these plants.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	beggar's lice - Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing beggar lice genus Hackelia, genus Lappula, Hackelia, Lappula - stickweed; beggar's lice stickweed - any of several herbaceous plants having seeds that cling to clothing
	2.	beggar's lice - any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments tick trefoil, beggar lice Desmodium, genus Desmodium - beggarweed; tick trefoil beggarweed, Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum - West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil subshrub, suffrutex - low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base