Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The club-moss, Lycopodium alpinum.
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Examples
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The live-oak, the sycamore, the Spanish mulberry, the mimosa, and the persimmon, gayly festooned with wreaths of the white and yellow jessamine, the woodbine and the cypress-moss, and bearing here and there
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We passed great numbers of swine, feeding on these burs, and now and then a horned animal browsing on the cypress-moss where it hung low on the trees.
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We passed great numbers of swine, feeding on these burrs, and now and then a horned animal browsing on the cypress-moss where it hung low on the trees.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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The live-oak, the sycamore, the Spanish mulberry, the holly, and the persimmon -- gaily festooned with wreaths of the white and yellow jessamine, the woodbine and the cypress-moss, and bearing here and there
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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