genus desmodium

English Thesaurus

1. beggarweed; tick trefoil (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	rosid dicot genus,
definition	:	a genus of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	beggar lice, beggar's lice, tick trefoil,
definition	:	any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae,
definition	:	alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae (noun.plant)