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stick-tight

 
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n.

(Bot.)

1. any of several plants having seeds tipped with barbs that may cling to fur or clothing, especially those of the genus Bidens, also called bur marigold, beggar-ticks, and Beggar's ticks, which have prickly flattened achenes. RHUD
[1913 Webster +PJC]

2. a seed from a sticktight{1}.
[PJC]


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stick-tight, name sometimes used for species of beggarweed and of bur marigold of the order Rosales, family Leguminosae, and the order Asterales, family Asteraceae, respectively.


 
 
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