cycas

American  

[sahy-kas, -kuhs] / ˈsaɪ kæs, -kəs /

noun

1. any of several palmlike Old World tropical plants of the genus Cycas, some species of which are cultivated as ornamentals in warm climates.

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Etymology

Origin of cycas

From New Latin; cycad

Example Sentences

In its native Japan, Cycas revoluta is believed to be pollinated by beetles.

From The Guardian

Varieties include Euphorbia, Cycas , Haworthia hybrids, Ariocarpus, Mammillaria, and South American cacti such as Copiapoa as well as crested and mutant forms of cactus and succulents.

From Los Angeles Times

It lived in a warm and wet environment with a large array of plants, dominated by conifers but also featuring relatives of the Gingko, cycas and others.

From Reuters

Dioecious; flowers in the form of cones, except the female flowers of Cycas, which consist of a rosette of leaf-like carpels at the apex of the stem.

From Project Gutenberg

In the genus Cycas the female flower is peculiar among cycads in consisting of a terminal crown of separate leaf-like carpels several inches in length; the apical portion of each carpellary leaf may be broadly triangular in form, and deeply dissected on the margins into narrow woolly appendages like rudimentary pinnae.

From Project Gutenberg