lycopodium powder

English

Noun

lycopodium powder (usually uncountable, plural lycopodium powders)

1. A fine powder or dust composed of the spores of lycopodium and related plants. It is highly inflammable, and is sometimes used in the manufacture of fireworks, and the artificial representation of lightning.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lycopodium powder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)