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| ly·co·po·di·um [ lkə pṓdee əm ] (plural ly·co·po·di·ums) |
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1. moss with branching stems: a plant that is a kind of club moss, with long branching stems covered in small leaves. It has small spore-carrying cones. Genus Lycopodium.
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2. flammable powder: a flammable powder, composed of spores of lycopodium and other club mosses. Use: formerly for coating for pills and suppositories, in fireworks, in foundry work.
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| [Early 18th century. < modern Latin< Greek lukos "wolf" + pod- "foot"; from its claw-shaped root] |
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