beggar-ticks 的定义
plural beg·gar-ticks.
- any of several composite plants of the genus Bidens, having rayless yellow flowers and barbed achenes that cling to clothing.
- the achenes of these plants.
- any of several other plants having seeds or fruits that cling to clothing, as those of the genus Desmodium.
更多beggar-ticks例句
- Better to be a beggar in freedom,” he cried out, “than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.
- Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief, and all that.
- Interestingly, they see Democrats in Congress at 4.08, or .92 ticks away from the dead political center of 5.
- In an interview, Liang said, “Air should be the most valueless commodity, free to breathe for any vagrant or beggar.”
- The landays in I Am the Beggar of the World are sung only when men are absent.
- He's a lucky beggar, Reginald, a very lucky beggar, and Warrender's daughter is more than he deserves.
- A beggar asking alms under the character of a poor scholar, a gentleman put the question, Quomodo vales?
- Valence sent a woman, disguised as a beggar, to spy out the position; but Bruce saw through the dodge, and the spy confessed.
- If God put a beggar on horseback, would the horse be blamable for galloping to Monte Carlo?
- And on the same authority we find that there is the ghost of dirt, for the ghost of the old beggar-man was "dirty."