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The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.
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- The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.
- n. Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing
- n. any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments