1. beggar lice(n = noun.plant) beggar's lice - Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing; Array
is a kind of stickweed
is a member of genus hackelia, genus lappula, hackelia, lappula
2. beggar lice(n = noun.plant) beggar's lice, tick trefoil - any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments; Array
is a kind of subshrub, suffrutex
is a member of desmodium, genus desmodium
has particulars: beggarweed, desmodium purpureum, desmodium tortuosum