cycadaceous

[sahy-kuh-dey-shuhs, sik-uh-]

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the order Cycadales.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cycadaceous¹

1830–40; < New Latin Cycad- ( cycad ) + -aceous

Example Sentences

The bud-like cone, however, does not seem to have been that of a Cycadaceous plant, as it occupied evidently not a terminal position on the plant that bore it, like the cones of Zamia or the flowers of Cycas, but a lateral one, like the lateral flowers of some of the Cactus tribe.

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I have already referred to the close resemblance which certain Cycadaceous genera bear to certain of the fern family.

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The Cycadaceous family yields much starchy matter, along with mucilage.

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We have therefore a marsh-loving or river-side animal, dwelling amidst filicine, cycadaceous, and coniferous shrubs and trees full of insects and small mammalia.

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After a few hundred yards of thick forest, containing many trees which were quite unknown to me, but which Summerlee, who was the botanist of the party, recognized as forms of conifera and of cycadaceous plants which have long passed away in the world below, we entered a region where the stream widened out and formed a considerable bog.

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