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cycadaceous

cycadaceous adjective: relating to, or resembling, the Cycadaceae, a family of plants like the palms but with exogenous wood.

Adjective

cycadaceous (comparative more cycadaceous, superlative most cycadaceous)

  1. (relational) Relating to, or resembling, the Cycadaceae, a family of plants like the palms but with exogenous wood.
    • The sago palm is a cycadaceous plant.
    • After a few hundred yards of thick forest, containing many trees which were quite unknown to me, but which Summerlee, who was the botanist of the party, recognized as forms of conifera and of cycadaceous plants which have long passed away in the world below, we entered a region where the stream...1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of cycadaceous

comparativemore cycadaceous
superlativemost cycadaceous

Origin of cycadaceous

From translingual Cycadaceae + -ous.

Questions about cycadaceous

What does cycadaceous mean?
Cycadaceous means relating to, or resembling, the Cycadaceae, a family of plants like the palms but with exogenous wood.
What part of speech is cycadaceous?
Cycadaceous is an adjective.

Words near cycadaceous in the dictionary

  1. cyburban
  2. cyc
  3. cycad
  4. cycad blue
  5. cycad blues
  6. cycadaceous
  7. cycadean
  8. cycadeoid
  9. cycadeoids
  10. cycadeous
  11. cycadian

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