Meaning of "stickseed" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD STICKSEED

From stick²; so called because its seeds have adhesive hooks on them.

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PRONUNCIATION OF STICKSEED

stickseed  [ˈstɪkˌsiːd]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STICKSEED

Stickseed is a noun.

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WHAT DOES STICKSEED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hackelia virginiana

Hackelia virginiana, commonly known as beggar's lice, sticktight or stickseed, is a biennial plant native to Eastern North America. It has simple, rough leaves and ribbed green stems. The flowers are small and white, bourne in mid-late summer. The seeds are burs, and are very sticky. The seeding part of the plant -- the upper stem -- dies earlier than mos other plants, and becomes very brittle. Often the entire seed stem, or even the entire plant will come out of the ground if the seeds catch on clothing or fur, so it is generally considered to be a pest plant. These are some of the smaller "tick seeds" in its range, and the seeds can burrow deep within certain clothing, such as socks. During the plant's first year of growth it has only a basal rosette of foliage, with the flowering stalk ascending the second year. The leaves are dark green and irregularly shaped.

Definition of stickseed in the English dictionary

The definition of stickseed in the dictionary is any of various Eurasian and North American plants of the boraginaceous genus Lappula, having red-and-blue flowers and small prickly fruits Also called: beggar's-lice.

TRANSLATION OF STICKSEED

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STICKSEED»

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Plants of British Columbia: Scientific and Common Names of ...

... bristly stickseed stickseed, many-flowered — » many-flowered stickseed stickseed, nodding — » nodding stickseed stickseed, Okanogan — » Okanogan stickseed stickseed, spreading — » spreading stickseed stickwort = Spergula arvensis ...

Hong Qian, K. Klinka, 1998

Technical Bulletin

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‎1940

Northern Rocky Mountain Wildflowers

Borage Family (Boraginaceae) Description: Many-flowered stickseed has blue flowers and is distinguished by having flower stalks that turn downward as the prickly nutlet fruit forms after flowering. Many- flowered stickseed is a tall, robust plant ...

Wayne Phillips, 2001

Plants of Kananaskis Country in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta

HackeliaOpiz. STICKSEED. Members of this genus are perennials or biennials, 5 to 1o dm tall, with hairy stems and leaves. Leaves are linear-lanceolate; flowers grow in scorpioid cymes. Each flower bears a calyx of 5 sepals, united and ...

Beryl Hallworth, Chendanda Chengappa Chinnappa, 1997

Field Guide to Wildflowers of Nebraska and the Great Plains: ...

Hackeliafloribunda other common names False or wild forget-me-not, beggar-lice , tall or manyflowered stickseed. family Borage (Boraginaceae). flower June and July. distribution Western Panhandle in Nebraska. Northwestern Great Plains.

Jon Farrar, 2011

CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, ...

Popov English: intermediate stickseed China: meng gu he shi L. myosotis Moench (Lappula echinata Gilibert) English: European stickseed China: he shi L. occultata Popov English: closed-fruit stickseed China: yin guo he shi L. patula ( Lehm.) ...

Umberto Quattrocchi, 1999

Rare Plants of Colorado

Hackelia gradients (Eastwood) Johnston (7^ the dense litter beneath oaks or pinyon pine and juniper +^S in Mesa Verde National Park are a few plants of Mesa Verde stickseed, Hackelia gracilenta. Fortunately, this rare species is monitored ...

‎1997

CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference

(1) Hackelia hirsuta; (2) NEW MEXICO STICKSEED; 12613. (3) boraginaceae; (4 ) Bandelier National Monument 12596. (1) Hackelia jessicae; (2) CUSHION CAT'S-EYE; (3) 12614. boraginaceae; (4) Channel Island National Park, Crater Lake ...

Tim Johnson, 1998

The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California

(p: 477) AMETHYST STICKSEED ST: 18 dm, hairs 1 dense, gen 1 spreading, gen < 1 mm, LF: basal 10130 cm, 1.34 cm wide, narrow-elliptic, lower cauline Smaller, gen narrower, ephemeral, hairs 1 appressed, soft, gen < 1 mm, occ > 1 шт оп ...

Bruce G. Baldwin, Douglas H. Goldman, 2012

North Woods Wildflowers: A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the ...

STICKSEED. Hackelia deflexa Borage Family (Boraginaceae) Description: Hairy plant to 3' tall, usually branched in the upper half, with sandpapery, stalkless alternate leaves up to 4" long that taper to pointed tips and narrow bases.

Douglas M. Ladd, 2001

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STICKSEED»

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Oregon's mountain wildflowers a little late but soon looking good

Wild ginger, trillium, monkeyflower, larkspur and blue stickseed. Iron Mountain is a botanist's delight because of its varied habitat and easy-to-reach location. «OregonLive.com, Jul 10»

Wildflower hunting we will go

... such as globe flowers, rock jasmine and pussy toes; mountain meadow cinquefoil and yellow hedysarum; blue stickseed; red roseroot; and purple heather. «Calgary Herald, Jul 08»

Martin Luther King Jr.

All of it happened slow: brushing the stickseed off, wading through jewelweed strangled by angel's hair, spotting the print of the deer and the red fox's scats. «Artvoice, Feb 01»