Cycad Definition

sīkăd, -kəd
cycads
noun
Any of a class (Cycadatae) of gymnospermous tropical shrubs and trees resembling thick-stemmed palms, with crowns of leathery, fernlike leaves and large cones containing fleshy seeds.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cycad

Noun

Singular:
cycad
Plural:
cycads

Origin of Cycad

  • New Latin Cycas Cycad- genus name from Greek kukas erroneous reading of koïkas accusative pl. of koïx doum palm from Egyptian ḳwḳw fruit of the doum palm

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From New Latin Cycas (“genus of tropical trees”)

    From Wiktionary

Cycad Sentence Examples

  • The endosperm detached from a large Ginkgo ovule after fertilization bears a close resemblance to that of a cycad; the apex is occupied by a depression, on the floor of which two small holes mark the position of the archegonia, and the outgrowth from the megaspore apex projects from the centre as a short peg.

  • This is a large seed, with a very long micropyle; it has a beaked pollen-chamber, and a complex integument made up of hard and fleshy layers, closely resembling the seed of a modern Cycad; the nucellus, however, was free from the integument, each a sketch after Kidston.

  • The long, parallel-veined leaves of the Cordaiteae, which were commonly referred to Monocotyledons before their structure or connexion with other parts of the plant was known, have been shown by Renault to have essentially the same anatomy as a single leaflet of a Cycad such as Zamia.

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Words Starting With

CCYCYC

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DADCAD

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Words Starting With C and Ending With D

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