Noun beggar lice has 2 senses
- 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
- 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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