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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

Leonard, of the United States, invented a powder consisting of 75 parts of nitro-glycerine, 25 parts of gun-cotton, 5 parts of lycopodium powder, and 4 parts of urea crystals dissolved in acetone.

From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford

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

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 Peter Charles Remondino

Amongst the various specifics recommended for the cure of plica, is the lycopodium, hence called herba plicaria; the vinca, or perventia.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

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

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