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STICKWEED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several herbaceous plants having seeds that cling to clothing
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("stickweed" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stickweed"):
beggar's lice; beggar lice (Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing)