Beggar-lice

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  beggar-lice \beggar-lice\ n.
     1. any of various Eurasian and North American plants having
        small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing.
  
     Syn: beggar's lice, beggar's-lice, beggar lice.
          [WordNet 1.5]


  
     2. any of various tropical and subtropical plants having
        trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or
        loments.
  
     Syn: tick trefoil, tick-trefoil, beggar's-lice.
          [WordNet 1.5]