Ground'-pīne, n.

n. (Bot.) (a.) A plant of the genus Ajuga (A. chamæpitys), formerly included in the genus Teucrium, or germander, and said to be so called from its resinous smell. Hill. (b.) A long, creeping, evergreen plant, of the genus Lycopodium (L. clavatum);—called also club-moss; also, an elegant tree-shaped evergreen plant, about eight inches in height, of the same genus (L. dendroideum), found in moist, dark woods in the Northern States. Gray.