lycopodn.
/ˈlʌɪkəpɒd/, U.S. /ˈlaɪkəˌpɑd/ Botany.
A club-moss, a plant of the family Lycopodiaceæ, esp. of the genus Lycopodium.
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heath-cypress1551
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wolf's-claw1578
club-moss1597
wolf-claw1597
wolf's-foot1597
tree-moss1611
Selagoa1627
cypress-moss1640
mountain moss1688
lycopodium1706
stag's horn (also staghorn) moss1741
walking fern1814
tod-tails1820
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ground-pine1847
forks and knives1853
fir club-moss1855
lycopod1861
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1861 H. Macmillan Footnotes from Nature 58 Lycopods may be said to present the highest type of cryptogamic vegetation.
1873 Dyer in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. XIII. 152 The relationship of a Lycopod to a flowering plant.
Derivatives
lyˈcopodal adj. and n. (a) adj. pertaining to the lycopods; (b) n. a plant belonging to the ‘Lycopodal alliance’.
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1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) II. 98 The Lycopodal Alliance.
1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 525 Lycopodals.
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