beggar-ticks
- noun
- US
:
semillas de pobre
- After our walk through the field, my socks were covered in beggar-ticks.
Examples
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The sticky beggar-ticks can be difficult to remove from a dog's fur.
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Children sometimes call beggar-ticks 'hitchhikers' because they cling to clothing so easily.
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I found some beggar-ticks stuck to my pants after hiking.
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The dog came home covered in beggar-ticks.
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After our walk through the field, my socks were covered in beggar-ticks.
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Children sometimes call beggar-ticks 'hitchhikers' because they cling to clothing so easily.
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The sticky beggar-ticks can be difficult to remove from a dog's fur.
Synonyms
A plant with hooked seeds that stick to clothes or animal fur
A plant with yellow flowers from Europe and Asia whose seeds have small hooks that stick to fur and clothes
A plant that grows in wet places with yellow flowers and seeds that stick to clothes
A plant with small yellow flowers and seeds that stick to fur and clothing
A plant with yellow flowers and prickly seeds that stick to fur or clothing
A plant with yellow flowers and prickly seeds that stick to fur or clothes
A plant with yellow flowers and prickly seeds that stick to clothes and fur
A plant with small sticky seeds that attach to clothes or animal fur
Small sticky seeds that cling to animal fur or clothes
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
A helpful way to remember beggar-ticks is to think of the plant's barbed seeds as tiny ticks that 'cling' to clothes, with beggar meaning they seem to 'beg' a lift. That's why the name refers to the sticky seeds of bur marigold plants that easily stick to clothing or animal fur.
