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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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lycopodium

The ground was covered with a damp green mould, strewn here and there with dead boughs, or patched with tufts of fern and lycopodium, throwing out their green hairy roots into the moist soil.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 by Various

Then the white tarletan clouds vanish, the blazing lycopodium goes out, and Wotan stands before the excited spectators.

From Second Book of Tales by Field, Eugene

It may be easily imitated by dusting an ordinary piece of window-glass over with lycopodium, placing a candle near it, and then looking at the candle-flame through the dusty glass from a fair distance.

From Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

This powder has the peculiarity of clinging together in little confederacies; it cannot be shaken asunder like lycopodium; and when the mass is squeezed, these groups of particles flatten, and a perfect cleavage is produced.

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

In Russia and in Poland they are composed of decomposed or decayed hawthorn-wood powder and lycopodium.

From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles