Definition of "beggar-ticks" []

• Any of several plants, of the genus Bidens, having yellow flowers and prickly fruit. (noun)
• The barbed fruit of these plants, that sticks to clothing and to animal fur. (noun)

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• "It was over-run with Roman wormwood and beggar-ticks, which last stuck to my clothes for all fruit."
• "It was overrun with Roman wormwood and beggar-ticks, which last stuck to my clothes for all fruit."