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    CLUB MOSS

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobilesplay

    Synonyms:

    club-moss; club moss; lycopod

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("club moss" is a kind of...):

    fern ally (pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida)

    Meronyms (parts of "club moss"):

    cone; strobile; strobilus (cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "club moss"):

    Lycopodium lucidulum; shining clubmoss; alpine clubmoss; Lycopodium alpinum (a variety of club moss)

    fir clubmoss; little clubmoss; Lycopodium selago; mountain clubmoss (of northern Europe and America; resembling a miniature fir)

    Christmas green; ground pine (any of several club mosses having long creeping stems and erect branches)

    little club moss; spike moss; spikemoss (any of numerous fern allies of the genus Selaginella)

    Holonyms ("club moss" is a member of...):

    class Lycopodiate; class Lycopsida; Lycopodiate; Lycopsida (club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta)

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