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beggar's-lice en · NOUN

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1. (plural, plural-only) Any of various plants, including Galium aparine and (US) Hackelia virginiana, which stick to clothing.
   • I had gotten beggar lice and twigs and stuff all over me, inside my clothes and shoes and all, and then I happened to look around and I had my hand right on a bunch of poison oak.. 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury:

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