Definition of Lycopodium. Meaning of Lycopodium. Synonyms of Lycopodium

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Definition of Lycopodium

Lycopodium
Lycopodium Ly`co*po"di*um, n. [NL., from Gr. ? wolf + ?, ?, a foot.] (Bot.) A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiace[ae]; club moss. Lycopodium powder, a fine powder or dust composed of the spores of Lycopodium, and other plants of the order Lycopodiace[ae]. It is highly inflammable, and is sometimes used in the manufacture of fireworks, and the artificial representation of lightning.

Meaning of Lycopodium from wikipedia

- Lycopodium (from Gr**** lykos, wolf and podion, diminutive of pous, foot) is a genus of clubmosses, also known as ground pines or creeping cedars, in the...
- Lycopodium clavatum (common club moss, stag's-horn clubmoss, running clubmoss, or ground pine) is the most widespread species in the genus Lycopodium...
- Lycopodium powder is a yellow-tan dust-like powder, consisting of the dry spores of clubmoss plants, or various fern relatives. When it is mixed with air...
- Spinulum annotinum, synonym Lycopodium annotinum, known as interrupted club-moss, or stiff clubmoss, is a species of clubmoss native to forests of the...
- Lycopodium lagopus, commonly known as one-cone club-moss, is an arctic and subarctic species of plants in the genus Lycopodium in the clubmoss family....
- Lycopodium densum may refer to one of two species of fern: Lycopodium densum Labill. is an illegitimate synonym of Pseudolycopodium densum (Rothm.) Holub...
- Dendrolycopodium obscurum, synonym Lycopodium obscurum, commonly called rare clubmoss, ground pine, or princess pine, is a North American species of clubmoss...
- Lycopodioides tamariscina (P.Beauv.) H.S.Kung Lycopodium caulescens Wall. ex Hook. & Grev. Lycopodium involvens Sw. Lycopodium tamariscinum (P.Beauv.) Desv. ex Poir...
- as the lateral leaves. The plant was originally described, and named Lycopodium apodum by Carl Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum (1753). Selaginella apoda...
- Selaginella lepidophylla (syn. Lycopodium lepidophyllum), also known as a resurrection plant, is a species of desert plant in the spikemoss family (Selaginellaceae)...