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
Have you ever seen the little club moss or Lycopodium which grows all over England, but chiefly in the north, on heaths and mountains?
From The Fairy-Land of Science by Buckley, Arabella B.
The LEPIDODENDRON, or "scale tree," was a gigantic club moss fifty and seventy-five feet high, spreading toward the top into stout branches, at whose ends were borne cone-shaped spore cases.
From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon
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