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tick trefoil

DEFINITIONS OF: tick trefoil

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n any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments

Synonyms:
beggar lice, beggar's lice
Types:
Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum, beggarweed
West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil
Type of:
subshrub, suffrutex
low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base
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