GROUND PINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ground pine mean? 

• GROUND PINE (noun)
  The noun GROUND PINE has 2 senses:

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

2. low-growing annual with yellow flowers dotted red; faintly aromatic of pine resin; Europe, British Isles and North Africa

  Familiarity information: GROUND PINE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROUND PINE (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 ("ground pine" 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 "ground pine"):

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Low-growing annual with yellow flowers dotted red; faintly aromatic of pine resin; Europe, British Isles and North Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ajuga chamaepitys; ground pine; yellow bugle

Hypernyms ("ground pine" is a kind of...):

bugle; bugleweed (any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover)