tickseed

English

Etymology

From tick +‎ seed, from tick (“the insect”).

Noun

tickseed (plural tickseeds)

  1. A seed or fruit resembling a tick in shape, or in clinging to the skin or hair/fur.
  2. A plant producing such seed or fruit, such as those in the genera:
    1. Bidens, beggarticks.
    2. Coreopsis, coreopsis
    3. Corispermum, bugseeds
    4. Desmodium, tick-trefoils

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