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Erect or creeping evergreen plants often used for Christmas decorations
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lycopodium
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. club moss
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lycopodium \Ly`co*po"di*um\, n. [NL., from Gr. ? wolf + ?, ?, a foot.] (Bot.) A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiace[ae] ; club moss. Lycopodium powder , a fine powder or dust composed of the spores of Lycopodium , and other plants ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lycopodium (from Greek lukos , wolf and podion , diminutive of pous , foot) is a genus of clubmosses , also known as ground pines or creeping cedar , in the family Lycopodiaceae , a family of fern-allies (see Pteridophyta ). They are flowerless , vascular, ...
Usage examples of lycopodium.
It is evenly and not too thickly covered with fine sand or lycopodium powder and then caused to vibrate acoustically by the repeated drawing of a violin-bow with some pressure across the edge of the plate until a steady note becomes audible.
Fitzfarris immediately began canvassing the Apotheken of the city until he found one that stocked the lycopodium flash powder, so he could add his vanishing-girl fillip to the occasion.
While the midget took her bows, Sir John lifted the dwarf horse off the platform and, unnoticed by the applauding crowd, set a sturdy wooden box up there behind Cricket and sprinkled on it some of his lycopodium.
Provence were shaded by palms, and strange ferns, and giant Lycopodia, never as yet enlivened by the song of a bird.
So I was going to suggest that for the sake of the headaches of all future generations of students, as well as for the convenience of the human race which can memorize club moss more readily than Lycopodium Clavatum, we base the nomenclature of our new sciences, and reestablish the terminology of the old, upon English.
Lycopodium complanatum, the American Club Moss, is a small mossy plant with aromatic, resinous smell and slightly turpentiny taste, the stalks hairy and the leaves close set, characteristics which have gained it the popular name of Ground Pine, as in the case of Yellow Bugle.
Fitzfarris immediately began canvassing the Apotheken of the city until he found one that stocked the lycopodium flash powder, so he could add his vanishing-girl fillip to the occasion.
Probably the spores used commercially are derived also from other species in addition to Lycopodium clavatum.