Lycopod (redirected from Lycopods)

Ly´co`pod

n.

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(Bot.) A plant of the genus Lycopodium.

Thesaurus

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lycopod - primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles club moss, club-moss fern ally - pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida strobile, strobilus, cone - cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts class Lycopodiate, class Lycopsida, Lycopodiate, Lycopsida - club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta Lycopodium lucidulum, shining clubmoss - a variety of club moss alpine clubmoss, Lycopodium alpinum - a variety of club moss fir clubmoss, little clubmoss, Lycopodium selago, mountain clubmoss - of northern Europe and America; resembling a miniature fir Christmas green, ground pine - any of several club mosses having long creeping stems and erect branches little club moss, spike moss, spikemoss - any of numerous fern allies of the genus Selaginella