beggar lice

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