lycopodium alopecuroides

1. 1.

   ground pine thickly covered with bristly leaves; widely distributed in barren sandy or peaty moist coastal regions of eastern and southeastern United States

   Synonymsfoxtail grass

   Broaderground pine

Questions about lycopodium alopecuroides

What does lycopodium alopecuroides mean?

lycopodium alopecuroides means "ground pine thickly covered with bristly leaves; widely distributed in barren sandy or peaty moist coastal regions of eastern and southeastern United States".

What is another word for lycopodium alopecuroides?

Close synonyms include foxtail grass. 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 lycopodium alopecuroides a common word?

lycopodium alopecuroides is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.