beggar's lice

Questions about beggar's lice

What does beggar's lice mean?

beggar's lice means "Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for beggar's lice?

Close synonyms include beggar lice, tick trefoil, beggar lice. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beggar's lice a common word?

beggar's lice is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.