Noun beggar lice has 2 senses
  1. beggar's lice, beggar lice - Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing
    --1 is a kind of stickweed
    --1 is a member of Hackelia, genus Hackelia, Lappula, genus Lappula
  2. tick trefoil, beggar lice, beggar's lice - any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments
    --2 is a kind of subshrub, suffrutex
    --2 is a member of Desmodium, genus Desmodium
    --2 has particulars: beggarweed, Desmodium tortuosum, Desmodium purpureum
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