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cycad

/ˈsaɪkəd/

cycad noun: any plant of the division Cycadophyta, having a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, evergreen leaves.

cycad: any plant of the division Cycadophyta, having a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard...
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Noun

cycad (plural cycads)

  1. Any plant of the division Cycadophyta, having a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, evergreen leaves.
    • As has been already remarked, the occurrence of genuine Cycads in the Carboniferous vegetation has not been demonstrated, and the same holds good of all the Palaeozoic floras. True Cycads, therefore, so far as known, make their first appearance in the Trias, at the commencement of the Mesozoic...1872, Henry Alleyne Nicholson, A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General Introduction on the Principles of Palaeontology
    • Then, after incomputable years, he was no longer man but a man-like beast, roving in forests of giant fern and calamite, or building an uncouth nest in the boughs of mighty cycads.1933, Clark Ashton Smith, Ubbo-Sathla

cycad meaning in Tamil

cycad in Tamil

பனை போன்ற செடிவகை

Examples of cycad in a sentence

  • As has been already remarked, the occurrence of genuine Cycads in the Carboniferous vegetation has not been demonstrated, and the same holds good of all the Palaeozoic floras.1872, Henry Alleyne Nicholson, A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General Introduction on the Principles of...
  • I began to count the pools, each a flare of turquoise light lost behind the high walls of the villas with their screens of cycads and bougainvillaea.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 7:

Forms of cycad

pluralcycads

Origin of cycad

From translingual Cycas (“genus of tropical trees”).

Words formed from cycad

Phrases with cycad

Questions about cycad

What does cycad mean?
Cycad means any plant of the division Cycadophyta, having a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, evergreen leaves.
What is cycad in Tamil?
Cycad in Tamil is பனை போன்ற செடிவகை. See Cycad meaning in Tamil.
How do you use cycad in a sentence?
As has been already remarked, the occurrence of genuine Cycads in the Carboniferous vegetation has not been demonstrated, and the same holds good of all the Palaeozoic floras.
What part of speech is cycad?
Cycad is a noun.
How do you pronounce cycad?
Cycad is pronounced /ˈsaɪkəd/.
What is the plural of cycad?
The plural of cycad is cycads.

Words near cycad in the dictionary

  1. cybrids
  2. Cybulski
  3. Cybulskis
  4. cyburban
  5. cyc
  6. cycad
  7. cycad blue
  8. cycad blues
  9. cycadaceous
  10. cycadean
  11. cycadeoid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cycad (page history and authors); cycad (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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