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cycads

cycads is the plural of cycad.

Meaning of cycad

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

Questions about cycads

What is cycads the plural of?
Cycads is the plural of cycad.

Words near cycads in the dictionary

  1. cycadlike
  2. cycadofilicinean
  3. cycadophyte
  4. cycadophytes
  5. cycadophytinous
  6. cycads
  7. cycas
  8. cycases
  9. cycasin
  10. cycasins
  11. Cychreus

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