lycopod

American  

[lahy-kuh-pod] / ˈlaɪ kəˌpɒd /

Also lycopodium

noun

1. any erect or creeping, mosslike, evergreen plant of the genus Lycopodium, as the club moss or ground pine.

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lycopod British  

/ ˈlaɪkəˌpɒd /

noun

1. another name for a club moss, esp one of the genus Lycopodium

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Etymology

Origin of lycopod

1700–10; < New Latin lycopodium, equivalent to Greek lýk ( os ) wolf + -o- -o- + New Latin -podium -podium; allegedly so named from the claw-like shape of the root

Example Sentences

But only in ferns and one other plant group called lycopods are the two plants capable of living independently.

From Scientific American

Sphenophyllum was a slender climbing plant with whorls of leaves, which was probably related both to the calamites and the lycopods.

From Project Gutenberg

To one of the lycopods, called Selaginella, reference will hereafter be made in connexion with its very instructive reproductive process.

From Project Gutenberg

We have examples of the last-named class in the ferns, lycopods and horsetail plants.

From Project Gutenberg

Upon the walls themselves I could clearly make out the outline, as plain as a sun picture, of the fucus and the lycopods.

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