Definition of lycopod in English:
lycopod
noun ˈlʌɪkə(ʊ)pɒdˈlīkəˌpäd
Botany A clubmoss, especially a lycopodium. Giant lycopods the size of trees were common in the Carboniferous period.
Class Lycopsida: several families
Example sentencesExamples
- The earliest of the vascular plants are the pteridophytes and lycopods.
- The largest of these primitive ‘trees’ were giant lycopods reaching upwards of 20 meters, but most of the plants grew to less than a meter above the ground.
- The great lycopod and cordaite trees of the Carboniferous and Permian were long gone, although smaller lycopods survived.
- Like the lycopod trees, these woody calamites scarcely survived the ‘Age of Coal’, and by the mid-Permian they were extinct.
- Coal forests of giant lycopods, calamites, pteridophytes and ferns cover the tropical landmasses.
Origin
Mid 19th century: anglicized form of lycopodium.