ground pine

Questions about ground pine

What does ground pine mean?

ground pine means "any of several club mosses having long creeping stems and erect branches". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for ground pine?

Close synonyms include Christmas green, yellow bugle, Ajuga chamaepitys. 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 ground pine a common word?

ground pine 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.