cycad

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It had a plant-dominated ecology; the land areas were covered with gigantic trees that could best be described as crosses between a California sequoia and a cycad, although such a description would have made a botanist sneer and throw up his hands.

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  1. noun Any of various palmlike gymnospermous cone-bearing evergreen plants of the division Cycadophyta, native to warm regions and having large pinnately compound leaves.

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  • I want to be there by this evening The group followed a cycad-studded ridge. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 02 - February 1997
  • I shouldn't be surprised if what they call rum is also distilled from the cycad, although they do grow considerable sugar down in the south He left a meticulous gratuity for the waiter; Walton would have been less generous. —  AnalogSFF,May2006
  • Hooray - I love opening packages especially when they contain cycad seeds or seedlings. —  Earth, Wind & Water
  • First up is the Asian cycad scale, a tiny insect that made its way into Florida in the 1990s, and has been working its way toward Texas ever since. —  The Facts: News
  • "The problem with Asian cycad scale is that it can get below ground and affect the roots, which makes it harder to fight." —  The Facts: News
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  1. New Latin Cycas, Cycad-, genus name, from Greek kukas, erroneous reading of koïkas, accusative pl. of koïx, a kind of palm tree, perhaps of Egyptian origin.
 

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