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tickseed
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tickseed, name sometimes used for the bur marigold bur marigold or sticktight, common name for any species of Bidens, a genus of chiefly weedy North American plants of the family Asteraceae ( aster family) with two-pronged burlike fruits (achenes) that have gained various species such
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, coreopsis coreopsis (kōrēŏp`sĭs), or tickseed, names for species of Coreopsis,
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, tick trefoil or beggarweed beggarweed or tick trefoil, leguminous plant (Desmodium purpureum) native to the West Indies and sown in the S United States for green manure and for forage; it has high nutritive value and is palatable to stock.
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, and other bur-producing weeds.


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