club moss

noun

Definition of CLUB MOSS

: any of an order (Lycopodiales) of primitive vascular plants (as ground pine) often with the sporangia borne in club-shaped strobili

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First Known Use of CLUB MOSS

1597

Rhymes with CLUB MOSS

across, backcross, brown sauce, bugloss, crisscross, duck sauce, emboss, Greek cross, hard sauce, Kinross, kouros, lacrosse, oakmoss, outcross, pathos, peat moss, pit boss, Red Cross, ringtoss, straw boss, tau cross, topcross, uncross, white sauce

Medical Dictionary

club moss

noun

Medical Definition of CLUB MOSS

: any of an order (Lycopodiales) of primitive vascular plants including several (genus Lycopodium) whose spores are used as a dusting powder and to coat pills

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