Usually means: Sticky seeds cling to clothing.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word beggar's lice:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. beggar's-lice: Merriam-Webster
  2. beggar's lice: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. beggar's-lice, beggar's-lice: Collins English Dictionary
  4. beggar's lice, beggars lice: Vocabulary.com
  5. beggar's lice: Wordnik
  6. beggar's-lice: Wiktionary
  7. beggar's-lice: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. beggar's-lice: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Beggar's lice, beggar's-lice, beggar's lice, beggars-lice, beggars lice: Dictionary.com
  10. Beggar's lice: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Beggar's lice: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. beggar's lice: Rhymezone
  13. Beggar's lice: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. beggars lice: FreeDictionary.org
  15. beggar's lice: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. beggar's-lice, beggar's lice: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Definitions from WordNet (beggar's lice)

noun:  Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing
noun:  any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments


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