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• a variation of lycopod.

lycopodium

British  

/ ˌlaɪkəˈpəʊdɪəm /

noun

1. any club moss of the genus Lycopodium, resembling moss but having vascular tissue and spore-bearing cones: family Lycopodiaceae See also ground pine

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Etymology

Origin of lycopodium

C18: New Latin, from Greek, from lukos wolf + pous foot

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A can of peaches without any peaches in it, holds a specimen of lycopodium, and a marvelous lantern that folds up into nothing by day and grows big at night, brings up the rear.

From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by Prentiss, George L.

They are wreathed with lycopodium ferns, and at their bases are stuck a young, short, recently half-unfolded palm-leaf, painted with Njĕmbĕ dots of white, red, and black.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill

The word lycopodium means "wolf's claw," because of the claw-like ends to the trailing stems of this moss; and the word clavatum signifies that its inflorescence resembles a club.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

All these splendid phenomena are, I believe, produced by diffraction, the vesicles or spherules of water in the case of the cloud acting the part of the sporules in the case of the lycopodium.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

There were fish in the wide basin around the fountain, which was edged with a broad border of lycopodium.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 by Various