Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fossil plant of the genus Lycopodium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) An old name for a fossil club moss.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun paleontology, obsolete A
fossil club moss .
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Examples
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One of these, however, so exactly resembles a lycopodite of both the Virginian and Yorkshire Oolite, -- _L. uncifolius_, -- that I cannot avoid regarding it as specifically identical; and it seems more than doubtful whether the stem which I have placed among the conifers is not a lycopodite also.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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Yet another of the organisms of the deposit seems to have been either a lycopodite or a fern.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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