tick trefoil

Other forms: tick trefoils

Definitions of tick trefoil
  1. noun
    any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments
    synonyms: beggar lice, beggar's lice
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    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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