tickseed
tickseed · tickseeds
A seed or fruit resembling a tick in shape, or in clinging to the skin or hair/furA seed or fruit resembling a tick in shape, or in clinging to the skin or hair/fur.
Meaning
5 sensesA seed or fruit resembling a tick in shape, or in clinging to the skin or hair/fur.
A plant producing such seed or fruit, such as those in the genera:
Bidens, beggarticks.
Coreopsis, coreopsis
Corispermum, bugseeds
Desmodium, tick-trefoils
More definitions
- any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America
Origin
From tick + seed, from tick (“the insect”).From tick + seed, from tick (“the insect”).
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