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Wiktionary
- n. Any of several plants, of the genus Bidens, having yellow flowers and prickly fruit.
- n. The barbed fruit of these plants, that sticks to clothing and to animal fur.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the seed of bur marigolds.
- n. any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and pricky fruits that cling to fur and clothing; -- also called
beggar's-ticks .
WordNet 3.0
- n. the seed of bur marigolds
- n. any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing
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“It was over-run with Roman wormwood and beggar-ticks, which last stuck to my clothes for all fruit.”
“It was overrun with Roman wormwood and beggar-ticks, which last stuck to my clothes for all fruit.”
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