beggar's lice
    n 1: Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly
         nutlets that stick to clothing [syn: beggar's lice,
         beggar lice]
    2: any of various tropical and subtropical plants having
       trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments
       [syn: tick trefoil, beggar lice, beggar's lice]

Beggar's lice \Beg"gar's lice`\ (Bot.)
   The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species
   of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the
   clothing of those who brush by them.
   [1913 Webster]