English Explanatory Dictionary

tickseed

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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:
  3. Bidens, beggarticks.
  4. Coreopsis, coreopsis
  5. Corispermum, bugseeds
  6. Desmodium, tick-trefoils

Word forms

tickseed tickseeds

Etymology

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

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