Definition of "lycopodium" [lycopodium]

• A plant of the genus Lycopodium, which includes the club mosses. (noun)
• The yellowish powdery spores of certain club mosses, especially Lycopodium clavatum, used in fireworks and explosives and as a covering for pills. (noun)

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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."
• "BLOOM: (REFLECTING) Wheatenmeal with lycopodium and syllabax."
• "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."