/luy"keuh pod'/ , n.
any erect or creeping, mosslike, evergreen plant of the genus Lycopodium, as the club moss or ground pine.
Also, lycopodium /luy'keuh poh"dee euhm/ .
[ 1700-10; lycopodium, equiv. to Gk lýk ( os ) wolf + -o- -O- + NL -podium -PODIUM; allegedly so named from the claw-like shape of the root ]