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Lycopodium  n.  (Bot.) A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiaceae; club moss.
Lycopodium powder, a fine powder or dust composed of the spores of Lycopodium, and other plants of the order Lycopodiaceae. It is highly inflammable, and is sometimes used in the manufacture of fireworks, and the artificial representation of lightning.






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"Lycopodium" Quotes from Famous Books



... apply salt water (one-half ounce to the quart), extract of witch-hazel, a weak solution of oak bark, or camphorated spirit. If the surface is raw use bland powders, such as oxid of zinc, lycopodium, starch, or smear the surface with vaseline, or with 1 ounce of vaseline intimately mixed with one-half dram each of opium and sugar of lead. In cases of chafing rest must be strictly enjoined. If there is constitutional disorder or acrid sweat, 1 ounce cream of tartar or a teaspoon ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... color—laid in cement in pretty patterns, and in the centre was a fountain whose spray reached the glass roof overhead. There were fish in the wide basin around the fountain, which was edged with a broad border of lycopodium. A little balcony opening out of an upper room was covered with vines, and close to the balustrade were boxes filled ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVII. No. 101. May, 1876. • Various



Words linked to "Lycopodium" :   Lycopodium lucidulum, Lycopodium selago, Lycopodium clavitum, Lycopodium obscurum, Lycopodium complanatum, fern genus, clubmoss family, genus Lycopodium, Lycopodium alopecuroides



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