tick-trefoil
nounEtymology
From tick + trefoil (“three-leaved”). Tick refers to the plant's loments – pods that break apart into segments that each contain one seed – which have small hooked hairs that allow the segments to stick to clothes, hair, or fur, similar to the way a tick clings on with its legs.
Definitions
One of several species in the genus Desmodium in the legume family
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for tick-trefoil. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA