TICK TREFOIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tick trefoil mean? 

• TICK TREFOIL (noun)
  The noun TICK TREFOIL has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TICK TREFOIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TICK TREFOIL (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

beggar's lice; beggar lice; tick trefoil

Hypernyms ("tick trefoil" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tick trefoil"):

beggarweed; Desmodium purpureum; Desmodium tortuosum (West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil)

Holonyms ("tick trefoil" is a member of...):

Desmodium; genus Desmodium (beggarweed; tick trefoil)