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beggartick

beggartick is the alternative form of beggar's ticks.

Meaning of beggar's ticks

Noun

beggar's ticks (uncountable)

  1. The bur marigold (Bidens spp.) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns that adhere to clothing.

Forms of beggartick

pluralbeggarticks

Origin of beggartick

From beggar + tick, so named as the seeds adhere to clothing and resemble ticks on the clothes of beggars.

Questions about beggartick

What is beggartick the alternative form of?
Beggartick is the alternative form of beggar's ticks.

Words near beggartick in the dictionary

  1. beggars can't be choosers
  2. beggars description
  3. beggars the question
  4. beggars' velvet
  5. beggarsome
  6. beggartick
  7. beggarticks
  8. beggarware
  9. beggarweed
  10. beggarweeds
  11. beggarwise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beggartick (page history and authors); beggar's ticks (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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