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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various small evergreen vascular plants of the family Lycopodiaceae, having needle-like leaves and reproducing by spores.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The common name of plants of the order Lycopodiaceæ, more particularly of the genus Lycopodium. Also called clubfoot moss.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) a primitive evergreen mosslike plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles, much used in winter decoration. The best known species is Lycopodium clavatum, but other Lycopodia are often called by this name. The spores form a highly inflammable powder.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of various simple microphyllous vascular plants, of the family Lycopodiaceae, that resemble mosses and produce spores.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles
  • noun primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From the club-shaped strobili of some species.]

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