Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous often creeping or prostrate vascular plants of the genus Selaginella that bear spores, have small scalelike leaves, and are closely related to the club mosses.
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- noun Any of a group of ferny
plants of the genus Selaginella;spike moss
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I adore selaginella but grow it as a terrarium plant.
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You threw me with the spelling of selaginella, I had to look it up since you usually are correcting me.
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“If you loved me,” she said trimly, watching the white fingers she plunged among the green branches of a selaginella, “could you write the things you do to me?”
In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006
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To dress wounds the Kamsá chewed selaginella and tobacco, mixed in urine, and plastered the paste over the injury.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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To dress wounds the Kamsá chewed selaginella and tobacco, mixed in urine, and plastered the paste over the injury.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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The spines are produced in great abundance, and they may be cut freely; their effect is unique when used for table decoration, stuck in tufts of dark green selaginella.
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"If you loved me," she said trimly, watching the white fingers she plunged among the green branches of a selaginella, "could you write the things you do to me?"
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The whole cavity is lined more or less thickly, and the lip of the cup all round is usually finished of with these same black fibrous roots; and then outside all moss and selaginella are applied according to the taste of the bird and, probably, the situation -- a few sprigs or a complete coating, as the case may be.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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