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BEGGARWEED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does beggarweed mean?
• BEGGARWEED (noun)
The noun BEGGARWEED has 1 sense:
1. West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil
Familiarity information: BEGGARWEED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
beggarweed; Desmodium purpureum; Desmodium tortuosum
Hypernyms ("beggarweed" is a kind of...):
beggar's lice; beggar lice; tick trefoil (any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments)
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