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Definition of Beggar-ticks

1. Noun. The seed of bur marigolds.

2. Noun. Any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing.

Definition of Beggar-ticks

1. Noun. Any of several plants, of the genus ''Bidens'', having yellow flowers and prickly fruit. ¹

2. Noun. The barbed fruit of these plants, that sticks to clothing and to animal fur. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beggar-ticks

begg'd beggable beggar beggar's-lice beggar's-ticks beggar's ticks beggar-my-neighbor beggar-my-neighbor policy beggar-my-neighbor strategy beggar-my-neighbors

beggar-my-neighbour beggar-my-neighbour policy beggar-my-neighbour strategy beggar-thy-neighbor beggar-ticks (current term) beggar belief beggar lice beggardom beggardoms beggared

beggarhood beggarhoods beggaries beggaring beggarism beggarlier beggarliest beggarlike beggarliness

Literary usage of Beggar-ticks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William MacKinley Klein (1993)
"Small beggar-ticks Herbaceous annual Bogs, vernal ponds and swampy ground. Bidens frondosa L. beggar-ticks; Stick-tights Herbaceous annual Moist, ..."

2. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"Small beggar-ticks Herbaceous annual Bogs, vernal ponds and swampy ground. Bidens frondosa L. beggar-ticks; Stick-tights Herbaceous annual Moist, ..."

3. Handbook of the Flora of Philadelphia and Vicinity: Containing Data Relating by Ida Augusta Keller, Stewardson Brown (1905)
"beggar-ticks. M. p. 1002. Wet banks and swamps. Summer. Bucks—Tullytown (Cr.), Bristol (Fr.). ... BIDENS FRONDOSA L. Common beggar-ticks, Stick-tight. ..."

4. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter, John Kunkel Small (1903)
"SWAMP beggar-ticks. (Man.p. loot ; I. "Ff 3Cf?.} Muddy shores, Pa., NJ, ... BLACK beggar-ticks. (Man. p. 1002.) In moist soil, NB to Fla., Neb. and Tex. ..."

5. The Study of Nature by Samuel Christian Schmucker (1908)
"We walk away, perhaps for a long time unconscious of the fact that we are engaged in sowing beggar ticks. In walking through an old pasture, ..."

6. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Widely distributed in N. America. Brook Sunflower, Large or Smooth Bur-marigold. i. B. tripartita L. Europe. Swamp beggar-ticks, Agrimony Water-hemp, ..."

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