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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of any species of Meibomia, the tick-trefoil, particularly of M. tortuosa, the Florida beggarweed.
- noun A name sometimes given in England to the common door-weed, Polygonum aviculare, to Cuscuta Trifolii, and to some other plants.
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All kinds of farm stock, as cattle, horses, mules, sheep and even swine, are said to do well when grazing on beggar-weed pastures in the summer and autumn.
Clovers and How to Grow Them Thomas Shaw 1880
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