Cycads - English meaning
Cycads – definitions in English dictionary
nounA palmlike plant of tropical and subtropical regions, bearing large male or female cones. cycads were abundant during the triassic and jurassic eras, but have since been in decline.
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Modern cycads are tropical plants whose ancestors can be traced in the fossil record for about 300 …
nounA plant that grows in hot regions, similar to a palm (= a tree that has a single trunk with a mass of long pointed leaves at the top) with large cones (= hard, dry, oval fruits), that was very common in the triassic and jurassic eras (= the period of time between around 245 and 146 million years ago)
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Cycads were once the most successful plant on the planet and were eaten by dinosaurs., some cycad s…
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Word origin
mid 19th century: from modern Latin Cycas, Cycad- (order name), from supposed Greek kukas, scribal error for koikas, plural of koix ‘Egyptian palm’.
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