club moss

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsclub-mosslycopod

   Broaderfern ally

   Narrowershining clubmossalpine clubmossfir clubmossground pinespikemoss

   Part ofLycopsida

   Partscone

Questions about club moss

What does club moss mean?

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

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.