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Definition of Sticktights
1. sticktight [n] - See also: sticktight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sticktights
Literary usage of Sticktights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Foundations of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen (1901)
"Besides the dry fruits, of which some of the principal kinds have been mentioned,
there are many kinds FIG. 272. —Burs. A, sticktights ; B ..."
2. Manual of Experimental Botany by Frank Owen Payne (1912)
".4, sticktights ; B, sticktights, magnified ; C, burdock ; D, cocklebur. a walk
through the woods in summer or early fall what fruits will be found clinging ..."
3. Manual of Experimental Botany by Frank Owen Payne (1912)
"Suggestion. — Examine the wool of a sheep or the tail of a cow and find if any
seeds are clinging there. After Fio. 101. — -4, sticktights ; B ..."
4. Civic and Economic Biology by William Henry Atwood (1922)
"The foment is the fruit of the sticktights. It is a legume which is divided into
sections. It does not open, but each section containing one seed is ..."
5. Bergen's Botany; Key and Flora Northern and Central States Ed. by Joseph Young Bergen (1904)
"Often, as in sticktights (Fig. 147), the hooks are comparatively weak, but in
other cases, as in the cockle- bur (Fig. 147), and still more in the Martynia, ..."
6. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1906)
"These seeds, or rather fruits, are called sticktights, pitchforks, and sometimes
beggar's lice. There were also in this island colony the cut-grass and two ..."
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