Definitions for tick trefoil

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

tick′ tre′foil(n.)

  1. any plant of the genus Desmodium, of the legume family, having jointed pods with hooked hairs.

    Category: Plants

Origin of tick trefoil:

1855–60, Amer.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. tick trefoil, beggar lice, beggar's lice(noun)

    any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments


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