Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging to or resembling the Lycopodiaceæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceæ, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also
club mosses ) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the family
Lycopodiaceae ofclub mosses .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the little thicket of the Pejual, near the purple-flowered befaria, grows a heath-leaved hedyotis, eight feet high; the caparosa, * which is a large arborescent hypericum; a lepidium, which appears identical with that of Virginia; and lastly, lycopodiaceous plants and mosses, which cover the rocks and roots of the trees.
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Two new species of lycopodium, the thyoides, and the aristatum, are seen lower down, near the Puerto de la Silla.); a lepidium, which appears identical with that of Virginia; and lastly, lycopodiaceous plants and mosses, which cover the rocks and roots of the trees.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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