tick trefoil

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsbeggar licebeggar's lice

   Broadersubshrub

   Narrowerbeggarweed

   Part ofDesmodium

Questions about tick trefoil

What does tick trefoil mean?

tick trefoil means "any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments".

What is another word for tick trefoil?

Close synonyms include beggar lice, beggar's 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 tick trefoil a common word?

tick trefoil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.