lycopod

NOUN
  1. primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles
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  • The pollen cells are formed from mother cells by a process of cell division and subsequent setting free of the daughter cells or pollen cells by rejuvenescence, which is distinctly comparable with that of the formation of the microspores of Lycopodiaceæ, etc. The subsequent behavior of the pollen cell, its division and its fertilization of the germinal vesicle or oosphere, leave no doubt as to its analogy with the microspore of vascular cryptogams. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
  • If you go to other parts of the planet at similar latitudes and with similar climates, you may find different species of conifers or lycopodia or seed-eating birds, but you'll find _similar_ species making up an ecosystem overall so much like the other that an untrained observer may not notice the difference. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
  • Lycopodiophyta: Small plants with green, branched stems, scale-like leaves, and no flowers. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Homeopathic remedies to use internally include sulphur 30th, calc, car. 6th to 30th, lycopodium 6th to 30th. THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
  • It has, however, proportionally a stouter stem than Lycopodium; its leaves, when seen in profile, seem more rectilinear and thin; and none of its branches yet found bear the fructiferous stalk or spike. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
  • The old tropical coal swamps (with their giant lycopods, calamites, and cordaitales) declined and disappeared with the drier and cooler climate, surviving only in China and in high latitudes of Pangaea.
  • The earliest of the vascular plants are the pteridophytes and lycopods.
  • The fine plastic yellow mud will put lycopodium powder to shame, as it were.
  • Like the lycopod trees, these woody calamites scarcely survived the ‘Age of Coal’, and by the mid-Permian they were extinct.
  • The Carboniferous was the age of lycopods and amphibians, as the The Elements of Geology
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