LYCOPOD Definition & Meaning

lycopod

[ lahy-kuh-pod ]

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noun

any erect or creeping, mosslike, evergreen plant of the genus Lycopodium, as the club moss or ground pine.

lycopod

/ ˈ��ɪ��əˌ��ɒ�� /

noun

another name for a club moss, esp one of the genus Lycopodium

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of lycopod¹

1700–10; < New Latin lycopodium, equivalent to Greek ��ý�� ( os ) wolf + -o- -o- + New Latin -podium -podium; allegedly so named from the claw-like shape of the root

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But only in ferns and one other plant group called lycopods are the two plants capable of living independently.

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Sphenophyllum was a slender climbing plant with whorls of leaves, which was probably related both to the calamites and the lycopods.

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To one of the lycopods, called Selaginella, reference will hereafter be made in connexion with its very instructive reproductive process.

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We have examples of the last-named class in the ferns, lycopods and horsetail plants.

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Upon the walls themselves I could clearly make out the outline, as plain as a sun picture, of the fucus and the lycopods.

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