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Spanish needles

 
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–noun
1. a composite plant, Bidens bipinnata, having achenes with downwardly barbed awns.
2. the achenes themselves.
Origin:
1735–45, Americanism; in allusion to its tropical American origin
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beggar ticks also beggar's ticks  
pl.n.   (used with a sing. or pl. verb)

    1. Any of various weeds of the genus Bidens in the composite family, having heads of usually yellow flowers. Also called Spanish needles, sticktight.

    2. The small barbed achenes of any of these plants, clinging readily to clothing and animal fur.

  2. Any of certain other plants or their clinging fruits.

Spanish needles  
pl.n.   (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
See beggar ticks.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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