Definitions
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- noun a family of ferns belonging to the order Lycopodiales
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The great abundance of epiphytes, mosses, and ferns, land orchids and epiphytic lycopodiaceae is characteristic.
Cuban moist forests 2008
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The club-moss family (lycopodiaceae) are other plants of the present surface, usually seen in a lowly and creeping form in temperate latitudes, but presenting species which rise to a greater magnitude within the tropics.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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