beggar's-lice

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beggar's-lice pl (plural only)

  1. Any of various plants, including Galium aparine and (US) Hackelia virginiana, which stick to clothing.
    • 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury:
      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..