Applied to various plants taken to resemble the cypress-tree, as broom cypress n. Kochia scoparia. dwarf cypress n. heath cypress n. names…

a Club-moss, Lycopodium alpinum.

With distinguishing word: any of certain low-growing non-coniferous plants said to resemble pines in their shape, foliage, or smell; esp. a…

a name for club-moss (= lycopodium, n. 1).

A name properly applied to Lycopodium clavatum from the club-like shape of its upright fertile spikes of spore-cases; thence extended to the other…

= wolf's-claw n. at compounds 6b.

†(a) ? the sea-wolf, Anarrichas lupus; (b) = wolf's-claw n.

(a) Any moss or moss-like plant that grows on trees; applied esp. to certain lichens. (b) A moss-like plant of branched form like a miniature…

†(a) The club-moss Lycopodium Selago (obsolete). (b) A Linnæan genus of South African herbs or undershrubs.

the Alpine or Savin Club-moss (Lycopodium alpinum); also the moss Hypnum cupressiforme.

†(a) the lesser clubmoss, Selaginella selaginoides (obsolete); (b) a moss growing in mountainous country.

Botany. A plant of the cryptogamous genus Lycopodium: a club-moss. In early use, L. clavatum.

In the names of plants. A kind of moss, esp. Lycopodium clavatum. More fully stag's horn (also staghorn) moss.

A club moss, Lycopodiella alopecuroides. Obsolete.

†(a) = tod's-tails n. at compounds 2 (obsolete); (b) the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea.

the common clubmoss, Lycopodium clavatum.

any of various plants, chiefly of desert regions, which curl up in dry conditions and appear dead, but which expand again when moistened and revive…

The club moss (Lycopodium clavatum) or other species of Lycopodium.

the name of the club-moss Lycopodium clavatum.

= fir-moss n.

A club-moss, a plant of the family Lycopodiaceæ, esp. of the genus Lycopodium.

A genus of cryptogams; also (with plural) a plant of this genus.

As the name of a plant. A club-moss (Lycopodium clavatum).

stag-heador stag's head moss = staghorn moss at stag-horn, n. 2b.

(see quot.).

†(a) a moss, probably Polytrichum commune (obsolete rare); (b) the clubmoss Lycopodium complanatum; also called ground pine.