Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A plant of the genus Lycopodium, which includes many of the club mosses.
- noun The yellowish powdery spores of certain club mosses, especially Lycopodium clavatum, formerly used in fireworks and explosives and as a covering for pills.
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- noun
club moss
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is called lycopodium, (1) and each of these particles can produce a vapor, and produce its own flame; but, to see them burning, you would imagine it was all one flame.
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BLOOM: (REFLECTING) Wheatenmeal with lycopodium and syllabax.
Ulysses 2003
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Homeopathic remedies to use internally include sulphur 30th, calc, car. 6th to 30th, lycopodium 6th to 30th.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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Some remedies that frequently come up include lycopodium, arsenicum, sepia, and apis, but these are usually taken in extremely high potencies and should be professionally prescribed.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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Homeopathic remedies to consider include mix vomica 6th to 30th when there is frequent but ineffectual desire to ease oneself; natrum mur. 6th to 12th; bryonia 6th to 30th when there is no desire; lycopodium 30th when there is difficulty passing stools, tendency toward bloating, and gas after meals; and sulphur 30th when there are lower abdominal feelings of heat and heaviness with burning and itching of the anus.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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Dr. Edgar Sheaffer, who writes for The Health Care Letter, recommends combining a dietary approach, citrus dips, and remedies such as arsenicum album, lachesis, lycopodium, or ledum palustre to deal with fleas.
250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You INGRID NEWKIRK 1998
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Dr. Edgar Sheaffer, who writes for The Health Care Letter, recommends combining a dietary approach, citrus dips, and remedies such as arsenicum album, lachesis, lycopodium, or ledum palustre to deal with fleas.
250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You INGRID NEWKIRK 1998
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-- One of the best remedies is powdered lycopodium; apply it every time the babe is cleaned; but first wash with pure castile soap; Pears 'soap is also good.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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The hands may be preserved dry for delicate work by rubbing a little club moss (lycopodium), in fine powder, over them.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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-- One of the best remedies is powdered lycopodium; apply it every time the babe is cleaned; but first wash with pure castile soap; Pears 'soap is also good.
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