club-moss

Questions about club-moss

What does club-moss mean?

club-moss means "primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles".

How many syllables are in club-moss?

club-moss has 2 syllables: club--moss. The stress falls on "club-".

What is another word for club-moss?

Close synonyms include club moss, lycopod. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is club-moss a common word?

club-moss is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.