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CHRISTMAS GREEN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several club mosses having long creeping stems and erect branches

Synonyms:

Christmas green; ground pine

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Christmas green" 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 "Christmas green"):

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)

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