club moss
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of club moss
First recorded in 1590–1600
Example Sentences
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The recently restored Hall of Mosses Trail loops through maples swathed with club moss.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
In the photo, seed-like strobili are arranged around the slender stalks of a club moss.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
No one really knows Derived from the Chinese club moss, huperzine A works like donepezil and galantamine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Which is the higher, grander mode of producing them, immediate creation of every flowering species, or development of the flower out of the green leaves of some old club moss or similar form?
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason
It encircled the soul as the tough underwood of the heather and the creeping tendrils of the club moss entangled the foot.
From The Son of His Mother by Viebig, Clara
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