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Definition of Sticktight
1. Noun. Any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing.
Group relationships: Bidens, Genus Bidens
Specialized synonyms: Bidens Bipinnata, Spanish Needles, Bidens Coronata, Bidens Trichosperma, Tickseed Sunflower, Bidens Tripartita, European Beggar-ticks, Trifid Beggar-ticks, Trifid Bur Marigold, Bidens Connata, Swampy Beggar-ticks
Terms within: Beggar-ticks, Spanish Needles
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
2. Noun. Parasitic on especially the heads of chickens.
Generic synonyms: Flea
Group relationships: Echidnophaga, Genus Echidnophaga
Definition of Sticktight
1. n. Beggar's ticks.
Definition of Sticktight
1. Noun. ''Hackelia virginiana'', a biennial plant native to Eastern North America, with sticky burrs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sticktight
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sticktight
Literary usage of Sticktight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sanitary Entomology: The Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"They have been shown capable of transmitting plague, and both feed readily on
man and will feed on rats. The sticktight flea ..."
2. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1918)
"... every two or three days with vaseline to which has been added a few drops of
lysol or cresol soap (15 drops to 85 oz. of vaseline). sticktight Flea. ..."
3. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1918)
"... every two or three days with vaseline to which has been added a few drops of
lysol or cresol soap (15 drops to 85 oz. of vaseline). sticktight Flea. ..."
4. The Weed Flora of Iowa by L. H. Pammel, Charlotte M King, John Nathan Martin (1913)
"... oats Ambrosia artemisiifolia A. Small ragweed Ambrosia trifida A. Large ragweed
Arctium lappa B. Burdock Bidens cernua A. sticktight Bidens discoidea A. ..."
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