Club Moss (Noun)
Meaning
Primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The ancient club-moss, which is over 350 million years old, still exists in its original form with minor adaptations to its environment.
- Scientists believe the spores produced by club-moss can help the plant to thrive in regions where environmental conditions change frequently.
- Due to their age and low diversity of characteristics, the fossilized remains of the club-moss found provide little to no variation of species study.
- Club-moss was among some of the primitive plant life that dominated earth's landscape long before modern-day plants.
- Researchers deduced that club-moss as a source of dispersal most likely relies on water over wind in spreading their spores.