Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun beggar_lice

2 senses of beggar lice

Sense 1
beggar's lice, beggar lice -- (Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing)
       => stickweed -- (any of several herbaceous plants having seeds that cling to clothing)

Sense 2
tick trefoil, beggar lice, beggar's lice -- (any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments)
       => subshrub, suffrutex -- (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)