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tickseed

tickseed noun: a seed or fruit resembling a tick in shape, or in clinging to the skin or hair/fur.

Noun

tickseed (plural tickseeds)

  1. A seed or fruit resembling a tick in shape, or in clinging to the skin or hair/fur.
  2. Bidens, beggarticks.
  3. Coreopsis, coreopsis
  4. Corispermum, bugseeds
  5. Desmodium, tick-trefoils

Forms of tickseed

pluraltickseeds

Origin of tickseed

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

Questions about tickseed

What does tickseed mean?
Tickseed means a seed or fruit resembling a tick in shape, or in clinging to the skin or hair/fur.
What part of speech is tickseed?
Tickseed is a noun.
What is the plural of tickseed?
The plural of tickseed is tickseeds.

Words near tickseed in the dictionary

  1. ticks down
  2. ticks off
  3. ticks on
  4. ticks over
  5. ticks past
  6. tickseed
  7. tickseeds
  8. tickspider
  9. tickspiders
  10. ticktack
  11. ticktacked

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