Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A composite weed, Bidens frondosa, whose flat achenia bear two barbed awns; also, one of the seeds. The name is doubtless applied to other plants with adhesive seeds. Compare beggar's-ticks, beggar's-lice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) any of several plants having seeds tipped with barbs that may cling to fur or clothing, especially those of the genus Bidens, also called
bur marigold ,beggar-ticks , andBeggar's ticks , which have prickly flattened achenes. - noun a seed from a sticktight{1}.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
beggar's ticks
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun parasitic on especially the heads of chickens
- noun any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing
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Examples
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Stan shut the door, recrossed the room, went out into the sunlight, and gave his Mom a little stick-tight wave as he walked over toward Max and his customers, who were out of the Impala now, standing on the blacktop, nodding impatiently as Max went through the rest of his spiel, the double talk about guarantees and stuff he always rushed through once the sale was secure.
Drowned Hopes Westlake, Donald E. 1990
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