Tick trefoil Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments
    beggar lice; beggar's lice.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a name given to many plants of the leguminous genus Desmodium, which have trifoliate leaves, and joined pods roughened with minute hooked hairs by which the joints adhere to clothing and to the fleece of sheep.

Webster 1913