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LYCOPOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles
Synonyms:
Classified under:
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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