beggar-ticks / ˈbɛg ərˌtɪks /

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beggar-ticks 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural beg·gar-ticks.

  1. any of several composite plants of the genus Bidens, having rayless yellow flowers and barbed achenes that cling to clothing.
  2. the achenes of these plants.
  3. 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

  1. Better to be a beggar in freedom,” he cried out, “than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.
  2. Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief, and all that.
  3. Interestingly, they see Democrats in Congress at 4.08, or .92 ticks away from the dead political center of 5.
  4. In an interview, Liang said, “Air should be the most valueless commodity, free to breathe for any vagrant or beggar.”
  5. The landays in I Am the Beggar of the World are sung only when men are absent.
  6. He's a lucky beggar, Reginald, a very lucky beggar, and Warrender's daughter is more than he deserves.
  7. A beggar asking alms under the character of a poor scholar, a gentleman put the question, Quomodo vales?
  8. Valence sent a woman, disguised as a beggar, to spy out the position; but Bruce saw through the dodge, and the spy confessed.
  9. If God put a beggar on horseback, would the horse be blamable for galloping to Monte Carlo?
  10. And on the same authority we find that there is the ghost of dirt, for the ghost of the old beggar-man was "dirty."