noun
- plural of lycopod; primitive vascular plants with small leaves and spore-bearing cones, including club mosses
Usage: botanical
Examples
- Lycopods are among the oldest living vascular plants on Earth.
- The forest floor was covered with various lycopods and ferns.
- Ancient lycopods grew much larger than their modern descendants.
- Students studied lycopods to understand plant evolution.
- The botanist collected several species of lycopods for research.
- Lycopods reproduce by spores rather than seeds.