lycopod

Other forms of lycopod

plural

lycopods·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lycopod

What does lycopod mean?

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

How many syllables are in lycopod?

lycopod has 3 syllables and divides as ly-co-pod under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for lycopod?

Close synonyms include club moss, club-moss. 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 lycopod a common word?

lycopod 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.