lycopodium
nounEtymology Borrowed from translingual Lycopodium, from Ancient Greek λύκος (lúkos, “wolf”) + πούς (poús, “foot”), equivalent to lyco- + -podium.
1
A club moss of the genus Lycopodium.
- We passed a torrent of water which is not much lower than the boiling point, and has a most singular appearance as it foams over its rugged bed, sending up clouds of steam, and often concealed by the overhanging herbage of ferns and lycopodia, which here thrive with more luxuriance than elsewhere.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 180:
- Derived terms
- lycopodium powder