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stick-tight
stick´-tight`
n. | 1.(Bot.) any of several plants having seeds tipped with barbs that may cling to fur or clothing, especially those of the genus Bidens, also called bur marigold, beggar-ticks, and Beggar's ticks, which have prickly flattened achenes. | | 2.a seed from a sticktight{1}. |
stick-tight
stick-tight, name sometimes used for species of beggarweedbeggarweed or tick trefoil, leguminous plant (Desmodium purpureum) native to the West Indies and sown in the S United States for green manure and for forage; it has high nutritive value and is palatable to stock. ..... Click the link for more information. and of bur marigoldbur marigold or sticktight, common name for any species of Bidens, a genus of chiefly weedy North American plants of the family Asteraceae (aster family) with two-pronged burlike fruits (achenes) that have gained various species such additional names as ..... Click the link for more information. of the order Rosales, family Leguminosae, and the order Asterales, family Asteraceae, respectively.ThesaurusSeeBidens |