beggar-ticks

beggar-ticks, beggar's-ticks

n (functioning as singular)

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of various plants, such as the bur marigold and tick trefoil, having fruits or seeds that cling to clothing, fur, etc

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) the seed or fruit of any of these plants

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	beggar-ticks - the seed of bur marigolds             Spanish needles beggar's-ticks, bur marigold, burr marigold, sticktight, beggar-ticks - any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing bur, burr - seed vessel having hooks or prickles
	2.	beggar-ticks - any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing beggar's-ticks, bur marigold, burr marigold, sticktight Bidens, genus Bidens - bur marigolds Bidens bipinnata, Spanish needles - common bur marigold of the eastern United States beggar-ticks, Spanish needles - the seed of bur marigolds Bidens coronata, Bidens trichosperma, tickseed sunflower - North American bur marigold with large flowers Bidens tripartita, European beggar-ticks, trifid beggar-ticks, trifid bur marigold - bur marigold of temperate Eurasia Bidens connata, swampy beggar-ticks - bur marigold of eastern and northern United States and Canada common in wet pastures and meadows subshrub, suffrutex - low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base