The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lycopodiaceous \Ly`co*po`di*a"ceous\, a. (Bot.) Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiace[ae], an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves.
Wiktionary
n. (club moss English)
Usage examples of "club mosses".
Horsetails and tree ferns grew to heights of fifty feet, club mosses to a hundred and thirty.
The American Ground Pine is not a flowering plant, but one of the Club Mosses, which with the Ferns and Mosses belong to the great class of Cryptogams.
She was walking me toward a small field tent, regulation issue, that was pitched higher up on the beach, under the shade of the club mosses.
Passing, Dick reached out to the bank and idly brushed his hand over a fleshy-spined mat of club mosses, three species of them growing together within arm's reach.
A sluggish river far huger than the Tyne drained its vast estuary through tree-ferns, club mosses, and horse-tails into a shallow inland sea.