CHRISTMAS GREEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Christmas green mean? 

• CHRISTMAS GREEN (noun)
  The noun CHRISTMAS GREEN has 1 sense:

1. any of several club mosses having long creeping stems and erect branches

  Familiarity information: CHRISTMAS GREEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHRISTMAS GREEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several club mosses having long creeping stems and erect branches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Christmas green; ground pine

Hypernyms ("Christmas green" is a kind of...):

club-moss; club moss; lycopod (primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Christmas green"):

Lycopodium clavitum; running pine; ground cedar; Lycopodium complanatum; staghorn moss; ground fir; Lycopodium obscurum; princess pine; tree clubmoss (a variety of club moss)

foxtail grass; Lycopodium alopecuroides (ground pine thickly covered with bristly leaves; widely distributed in barren sandy or peaty moist coastal regions of eastern and southeastern United States)