Noun: beggar lice
- Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing
"After hiking through the meadow, their socks were covered in beggar lice";
- beggar's lice, stickseed
- Any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments
"The beggar lice's clingy seed pods easily attached to hikers' clothing, aiding in seed dispersal";
- tick trefoil, beggar's lice
Type of: stickweed, subshrub, suffrutex
Part of: Desmodium, genus Desmodium, genus Hackelia, genus Lappula, Hackelia, Lappula