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GROUND PINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Low-growing annual with yellow flowers dotted red; faintly aromatic of pine resin; Europe, British Isles and North Africa
Synonyms:
Ajuga chamaepitys; ground pine; yellow bugle
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ground pine" is a kind of...):
bugle; bugleweed (any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of several club mosses having long creeping stems and erect branches
Synonyms:
Christmas green; ground pine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("ground pine" is a kind of...):
club-moss; club moss; lycopod (primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ground pine"):
Lycopodium clavitum; running pine; ground cedar; Lycopodium complanatum; staghorn moss; ground fir; Lycopodium obscurum; princess pine; tree clubmoss (a variety of club moss)
foxtail grass; Lycopodium alopecuroides (ground pine thickly covered with bristly leaves; widely distributed in barren sandy or peaty moist coastal regions of eastern and southeastern United States)
