noun
any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments
• Syn: ↑beggar lice, ↑beggar's lice
• Hyponyms: ↑beggarweed, ↑Desmodium tortuosum, ↑Desmodium purpureum
• Member Holonyms: ↑Desmodium, ↑genus Desmodium
Useful english dictionary. 2012.