lycopodium
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of lycopodium
C18: New Latin, from Greek, from lukos wolf + pous foot
Example Sentences
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The room was prettily decorated with the racing jackets and caps of the riders in the races, and with scarlet wreaths of geranium and hibiscus mingled with lycopodium ferns and selaginella.
From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Brassey, Annie
Stretching forth his left hand, he liberated a small cloud of lycopodium powder, which ignited with a brilliant flash.
From Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
Oddly enough, these mosses were the big forefathers of the moss we know as lycopodium, which in a powdered state is used to produce flash signals.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 by Various
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
He comes upon seven hundred yards of white tarletan, and fourteen pounds of hissing, blazing lycopodium!
From Second Book of Tales by Field, Eugene
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