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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Beg·gar's lice Bot. The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 beggar's lice
      n 1: Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly
           nutlets that stick to clothing [syn: beggar lice]
      2: any of various tropical and subtropical plants having
         trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments
         [syn: tick trefoil, beggar lice]