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    BEGGAR LICE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or lomentsplay

    Synonyms:

    beggar's lice; beggar lice; tick trefoil

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("beggar lice" is a kind of...):

    subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beggar lice"):

    beggarweed; Desmodium purpureum; Desmodium tortuosum (West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil)

    Holonyms ("beggar lice" is a member of...):

    Desmodium; genus Desmodium (beggarweed; tick trefoil)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothingplay

    Synonyms:

    beggar's lice; beggar lice

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("beggar lice" is a kind of...):

    stickweed (any of several herbaceous plants having seeds that cling to clothing)

    Holonyms ("beggar lice" is a member of...):

    genus Hackelia; genus Lappula; Hackelia; Lappula (stickweed; beggar's lice)

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