beggar lice

English Thesaurus

1. any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	subshrub, suffrutex,
definition	:	low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	beggarweed, desmodium purpureum, desmodium tortuosum,
definition	:	West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	desmodium, genus desmodium,
definition	:	beggarweed; tick trefoil (noun.plant)

2. Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	stickweed,
definition	:	any of several herbaceous plants having seeds that cling to clothing (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus hackelia, genus lappula, hackelia, lappula,
definition	:	stickweed; beggar's lice (noun.plant)