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Definition of Lycopodium
1. Noun. Type and sole genus of the Lycopodiaceae; erect or creeping evergreen plants often used for Christmas decorations.
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Clubmoss Family, Family Lycopodiaceae, Lycopodiaceae
Definition of Lycopodium
1. n. A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiaceæ; club moss.
Definition of Lycopodium
1. Noun. club moss ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lycopodium
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Medical Definition of Lycopodium
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lycopodium
Literary usage of Lycopodium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des japanischen Riesensalamanders by Charles Stuart Gager, Daniel Lange (1916)
"Nearly all the species of lycopodium prefer moist situations, and one or two of them
... lycopodium Selago and a few other species are epiphytic. ..."
2. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1905)
"A lycopodium growing on the ground, especially common on the treeless highlands
of Guam called ... lycopodium marianum Willd. Same as lycopodium cernuum. ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"They are similar to those of lycopodium ... corresponding to the embryonic tubercle
of lycopodium ..."
4. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"The inner layer of the cell-wall is present in exceptional amount only under the
position of opening, which is quite the same as what we find in lycopodium ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1870)
"The lycopodium of commerce is mostly collected in the mountains of ... The sporangia
in the genus lycopodium are situated in the axils of the leaves. ..."
6. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"A small order of comparatively unimportant plants. lycopodium. ... lycopodium is
used as a dusting powder for irritated and excoriated surfaces, ..."
7. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1891)
"lycopodium in Enuresis.—Dr. GEJ Greene, of Ferns, Wexford, has found lycopodium
useful in the treatment of enuresis. He suggests that it exercises an ..."
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