1. Any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing
   "The hiker's socks were covered in stickseed after walking through the field";
   - bur marigold, burr marigold, beggar-ticks, beggar's-ticks, sticktight
    
2. Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing
   "After hiking through the meadow, their socks were covered in stickseed";
   - beggar's lice, beggar lice

Derived forms: stickseeds

Type of: stickweed, subshrub, suffrutex

Part of: Bidens, genus Bidens, genus Hackelia, genus Lappula, Hackelia, Lappula

Encyclopedia: Stickseed