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Definition of Little club moss
1. Noun. Any of numerous fern allies of the genus Selaginella.
Generic synonyms: Club Moss, Club-moss, Lycopod
Group relationships: Genus Selaginella, Selaginella
Specialized synonyms: Basket Spikemoss, Meadow Spikemoss, Selaginella Apoda, Dwarf Lycopod, Rock Spikemoss, Selaginella Rupestris, Desert Selaginella, Selaginella Eremophila, Resurrection Plant, Rose Of Jericho, Selaginella Lepidophylla, Florida Selaginella, Selaginella Eatonii
Lexicographical Neighbors of Little Club Moss
Literary usage of Little club moss
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fundamentals of Botany by Charles Stuart Gager (1916)
"... SELAGINELLA (LITTLE CLUB-MOSS) 343. Habitat and Distribution.—The little
club-mosses (species of Selaginella) are found in every continent and on most ..."
2. The Essentials of Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey (1896)
"(6) Carefully dissect out from the fruiting cone of a Little Club- moss several
spore-cases, the lower ones with four large spores, the upper with many ..."
3. The Fairy-land of Science by Arabella Burton Buckley (1903)
"... scarcely ever more than'two feet, and often not many inches high. Have you
ever seen the little club-moss or Lycopodium which grows ..."
4. Science Lectures for the People: Science Lectures Delivered in Manchester (1871)
"The little club moss which grows so freely in Scotland and on the Alps bears
precisely the same kind of fruit as that of which the coal is made up. ..."
5. Life History of Our Planet by William Dickey Gunning (1876)
"We must picture the primeval land-plant from the little Club-moss whose branching
stalk curves and creeps on the ground, and sends up pedicels which bear ..."
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