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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[

Tick

the insect +

seed

; cf. G.

wanzensamen

, literally, bug seed.]

A seed or fruit resembling in shape an insect, as that of certain plants.

(Bot.)

(a)

Same as

(b)

Any plant of the genus

Corispermum

, plants of the Goosefoot family.

tickseed ‎(plural tickseeds)

A seed or fruit resembling a tick in shape.
A plant producing such seed or fruit, such as those in the genera:
1. Bidens, beggarticks.
2. Coreopsis, coreopsis
3. Corispermum, bugseeds
4. Desmodium, tick-trefoils