Bot. [Anglicized form of LYCOPODIUM.] A club-moss, a plant of the N.O. Lycopodiaceæ, esp. of the genus Lycopodium.
1861. H. Macmillan, Footnotes fr. Page Nat., 58. Lycopods may be said to present the highest type of cryptogamic vegetation.
1873. Dyer, in Q. Jrnl. Microscop. Sci., XIII. 152. The relationship of a Lycopod to a flowering plant.
Hence Lycopodal a., pertaining to the lycopods; sb., a plant belonging to the ‘Lycopodal alliance.’
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), II. 98. The Lycopodal Alliance.
1854. A. Adams, etc., Man. Nat. Hist., 525. Lycopodals.
