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lycopod

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ly⋅co⋅pod

  [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.
Also, ly⋅co⋅po⋅di⋅um  [lahy-kuh-poh-dee-uhm] .

Origin:
1700–10; < NL lycopodium, equiv. to Gk lýk(os) wolf + -o- -o- + NL -podium -podium; allegedly so named from the claw-like shape of the root
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lycopod

noun
primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles [syn: club moss] 
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