staghorn moss

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   a variety of club moss

   Synonymsground cedarLycopodium complanatum

   Broaderground pine

Questions about staghorn moss

What does staghorn moss mean?

staghorn moss means "a variety of club moss".

What is another word for staghorn moss?

Close synonyms include ground cedar, Lycopodium complanatum. 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 staghorn moss a common word?

staghorn moss 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.