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Spanish needles
noun
- (used with a singular or plural verb) a composite plant, Bidens bipinnata, having achenes with downwardly barbed awns.
- (used with a plural verb) the achenes themselves.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Spanish needles1
An Americanism dating back to 1735–45; in allusion to its tropical American origin
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