beggar lice

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Noun	1.	beggar lice - Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothingbeggar's licegenus Hackelia, genus Lappula, Hackelia, Lappula - stickweed; beggar's licestickweed - any of several herbaceous plants having seeds that cling to clothing
	2.	beggar lice - any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or lomentstick trefoil, beggar's liceDesmodium, genus Desmodium - beggarweed; tick trefoilbeggarweed, Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum - West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soilsubshrub, suffrutex - low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base