Results for lycopodiaceae

Definitions of lycopodiaceae:

A natural order of cryptogamic or flowerless plants, whose tissues and mode of fructification resemble ferns, whose foliage approaches the coniferae, and whose general aspect is like the mosses; the club- mosses.

Usage examples for lycopodiaceae:

• Ferns, Lycopodiaceae Equisetaceae, Sigillariae, Stigmariae, Coniferae. "The Student's Elements of Geology", Sir Charles Lyell

• 307 und 314. Where many beds of coal are superposed over one another, the families and species are not always blended, being most frequently grouped together in separate genera; Lycopodiaceae and certain ferns being alone found in one bed, and Stigmariae and Sigillariae in another. "COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1", Alexander von Humboldt