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
Selaginella lepidophylla.—This species of club moss is found in southern California, and has remarkable hygrometric qualities.
From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders
The flora of the Oolite, like that of New Zealand, seems to have been in large part cryptogamic, consisting of ferns and the allied horse-tail and club moss families.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller
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