beggar-ticks

Variant of beggar's-ticks

beggar's-ticks definition

☆ beggar's-ticks (-tiks′)

noun pl. beggar's-ticks beg′gar's-ticks′

    1. tick trefoil
    2. the prickly seed pod of a tick trefoil
    1. bur marigold
    2. the prickly seed of a bur marigold
  3. beggar's-lice
Also beggar-ticks beg′gar-ticks′

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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