interrupted clubmoss
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
6
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Lycopodium annotinum, a club moss of the family Lycopodiaceae common throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Bowfell is not among the places he must visit, but viviparous alpine bistort grows there at over 1,800ft, and there is also interrupted clubmoss, which grows too in Rossett Ghyll and up Great Langdale on the grassy slopes among damp rocks."
- "Among the species which best characterise the undergrowth of conifers, on acid humus - and therefore in particular, but not only, in spruce woods - is the creeping and common interrupted clubmoss (Lycopodium annotinum)."
- "Interrupted Clubmoss is generally common, and Issler's clubmoss Diphasiastrum complanatum scattered."
Usage
Inflected Forms
interrupted club moss (alternative)
Synonyms
stiff clubmoss