Ground pine Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any of several club mosses having long creeping stems and erect branches
    Christmas green.
  2. noun low-growing annual with yellow flowers dotted red; faintly aromatic of pine resin; Europe, British Isles and North Africa
    yellow bugle; Ajuga chamaepitys.

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  1. . (Bot.) See under Ground.
Definitions
  1. . (Bot.) (a) A blue-flowered herb of the genus Ajuga (A. Chamæpitys), formerly included in the genus Teucrium or germander, and named from its resinous smell. Sir L. Hill. (b) A long, creeping, evergreen plant of the genus Lycopodium (L. clavatum); called also club moss. (c) A tree-shaped evergreen plant about eight inches in height, of the same genus (L. dendroideum) found in moist, dark woods in the northern part of the United States. Gray.

Webster 1913