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sticktight

sticktight noun: hackelia virginiana, a biennial plant native to Eastern North America, with sticky burrs.

Noun

sticktight (countable and uncountable, plural sticktights)

  1. Hackelia virginiana, a biennial plant native to Eastern North America, with sticky burrs.
    Synonyms:
    burseed, stickseed

Synonyms of sticktight

Forms of sticktight

pluralsticktights

Origin of sticktight

From stick + tight.

Questions about sticktight

What does sticktight mean?
Sticktight means hackelia virginiana, a biennial plant native to Eastern North America, with sticky burrs.
What part of speech is sticktight?
Sticktight is a noun.
What is the plural of sticktight?
The plural of sticktight is sticktights.

Words near sticktight in the dictionary

  1. stickshifts
  2. sticksman
  3. sticksmanship
  4. sticksmen
  5. Sticksville
  6. sticktight
  7. sticktights
  8. sticktion
  9. sticktoitive
  10. sticktoitiveness
  11. stickum

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