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LYCOPOD

Dictionary entry overview: What does lycopod mean?

• LYCOPOD (noun)
The noun LYCOPOD has 1 sense:

1. primitive evergreen mosslike plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles

Familiarity information: LYCOPOD used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• LYCOPOD (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Primitive evergreen mosslike plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

club moss; club-moss; lycopod

Hypernyms ("lycopod" is a kind of...):

fern ally (pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida)

Meronyms (parts of "lycopod"):

cone; strobile; strobilus (cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lycopod"):

Lycopodium lucidulum; shining clubmoss; 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)

Holonyms ("lycopod" is a member of...):

class Lycopodiate; class Lycopsida; Lycopodiate; Lycopsida (club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta)

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