noun
primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles
• Hypernyms: ↑fern ally
• Hyponyms:
↑shining clubmoss, ↑Lycopodium lucidulum, ↑alpine clubmoss, ↑Lycopodium alpinum, ↑fir clubmoss, ↑mountain clubmoss, ↑little clubmoss, ↑Lycopodium selago, ↑ground pine, ↑Christmas green, ↑spikemoss, ↑spike moss, ↑little club moss
• Member Holonyms: ↑Lycopsida, ↑class Lycopsida, ↑Lycopodiate, ↑class Lycopodiate
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nounEtymology: translation of New Latin muscus clavatus
: a plant of the order Lycopodiales especially of the genus Lycopodium or the closely related Selaginella in some species of which the sporangia are borne in club-shaped strobili
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any plant of the genus Lycopodium.
[1590-1600]
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club moss noun
Any primitive plant of the family Lycopodiaceae, allied to the ferns, typically having small overlapping leaves and creeping stems
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Main Entry: ↑club
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Main Entry: ↑moss
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club moss,
1. any one of a group of flowerless plants, related to the ferns and not true mosses, that are either erect or creeping, usually mosslike, and bear club-shaped cones which contain reproductive spores; ground pine; lycopod; lycopodium. Club mosses are often used in Christmas decorations.
2. a huge fossil tree that 300 million years ago grew along with tree ferns in steaming hot swamps and was turned into coal or became petrified.
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(also clubmoss) n. a low-growing green plant that resembles a large moss, having branching stems with undivided leaves. Relatives of the club mosses were the first plants to colonize the land during the Silurian period. ● Class Lycopodiopsida, phylum Lycopodiophyta: one living family, Lycopodiaceae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.