beggar-tick
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Related to beggar-tick: Bidens frondosa
beggar-tick:
see bur marigoldbur marigoldor 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 additional names as
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