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Definition of Stickseed
1. n. A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.
Definition of Stickseed
1. Noun. The plant sticktight. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stickseed
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stickseed
Literary usage of Stickseed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Flora of Minnesota Including Its Phaenogamous and Vascular by Warren Upham (1884)
"stickseed. Bur-seed. Red river valley at Pembina, Havard. Northwest. ... stickseed.
Bur- seed. "Stick-tight." Frequency and range nearly like the last ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1876)
"... or stickseed. Now, among species at both ends of the series — in some and not
in others—a tendency to bur-like fruit is manifested. ..."
3. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"232.) X J- Means of control the same as for Lappula echinata. MANY-FLOWERED stickseed
... Greene Other English names: Western Sheep-bur, Western stickseed ..."
4. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"Greene stickseed Herbaceous annual River bank and waste ground. ... Beggar's-lice;
stickseed Herbaceous annual Railroad ballast and cinders. ..."
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