beggar lice

Noun beggar lice has 2 senses

• beggar lice(n = noun.plant) beggar's lice - Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing;
is a member of genus hackelia, genus lappula, hackelia, lappula
is a kind of stickweed

• beggar lice(n = noun.plant) beggar's lice, tick trefoil - any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments;
is a member of desmodium, genus desmodium
has particulars: beggarweed, desmodium purpureum, desmodium tortuosum
is a kind of subshrub, suffrutex