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Definition of Selaginella
1. Noun. Type and sole genus of the Selaginellaceae; evergreen moss-like plants: spike moss and little club moss.
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Selaginellaceae, Selaginellaceae
Member holonyms: Little Club Moss, Spike Moss, Spikemoss
Definition of Selaginella
1. n. A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus. Many species are cultivated in conservatories.
Definition of Selaginella
1. Noun. Any of a group of ferny plants of the genus ''Selaginella''; spike moss ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Selaginella
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Medical Definition of Selaginella
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Selaginella
Literary usage of Selaginella
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"Anyhow it appears in selaginella, so far as my observations reach, that the most
favoured ... 1 In selaginella erythropus I found, not infrequently, two. ..."
2. Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des japanischen Riesensalamanders by Charles Stuart Gager, Daniel Lange (1916)
"selaginella (LITTLE CLUB-MOSS) A. Classification: Division V. ... Various species
of selaginella are common in cultivation in greenhouses. ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"selaginella apus (L.) Spring. Creeping selaginella. (Fig. 1o1. ... selaginella apus
Spring in Mart. Fl. Bras. 1: Part. 2, 119. 184o. ..."
4. An Introduction to Structural Botany by Dukinfield Henry Scott (1904)
"of the embryo are connected with the presence of the absorbing organ called the
foot, which in selaginella and most of the higher Cryptogams performs a ..."
5. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1916)
"A NEW FOSSIL selaginella FROM THE LOWER TERTIARY OF MONTANA* BY FH KNOWLTON ...
The plants in association with the selaginella indicate that they probably ..."
6. Elementary Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1898)
"On comparing selaginella and isoetes with the ferns, we sec that the sporophyte
is, as in the ferns, the prominent part of the plant. ..."
7. Lessons in Elementary Biology by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1893)
"selaginella selaginella, one of the club-mosses, consists of a long branching
stem bearing numerous close-set leaves. It thus resembles in external ..."
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