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CLUB MOSS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles

Synonyms:

club-moss; club moss; lycopod

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("club moss" is a kind of...):

fern ally (pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida)

Meronyms (parts of "club moss"):

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

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

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 ("club moss" 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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