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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun cycad has 1 sense

cycad(n = noun.plant) Array - any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves; Array

is a kind of

gymnosperm

has particulars: cycas revoluta, sago palm, zamia, ceratozamia, dioon, encephalartos, encephalartos caffer, kaffir bread, macrozamia, burrawong, macrozamia communis, macrozamia spiralis

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CIDE DICTIONARY

cycad, n.

Any plant of the natural order Cycadaceæ, as the sago palm, etc. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

cycad, n. Bot. any of the palmlike plants of the order Cycadales (including fossil forms) inhabiting tropical and subtropical regions and often growing to a great height.

Etymology

mod.L cycas, cycad- f. supposed Gk kukas, scribal error for koikas, pl. of koix Egyptian palm

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