Definition of Cycads. Meaning of Cycads. Synonyms of Cycads

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Definition of Cycads

Cycad
Cycad Cy"cad (s[imac]"k[a^]d), n. (Bot.) Any plant of the natural order Cycadace[ae], as the sago palm, etc.

Meaning of Cycads from wikipedia

- arrangements. Cycads have very specialized pollinators, usually a specific beetle, and more rarely a thrip or a moth. Both male and female cycads bear cones...
- Extracting edible starch from the sago cycad requires special care due to the poisonous nature of cycads. Cycad sago is used for many of the same purposes...
- the only genus of cycad found across the region, with the exception for Australia, where cycads native to all three families of cycads are found. Despite...
- from this and other cycads. It is a less-common food source for some peoples of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Unlike palms, cycads are highly poisonous:...
- Lebombo cycad is the common name for two closely related species of cycads native to the Lebombo Mountains: Encephalartos lebomboensis Encephalartos senticosus...
- List of Cycads. Retrieved 2025-03-06. "Zamia picta". The World List of Cycads. Retrieved 2025-03-07. "Zamia polymorpha". The World List of Cycads. Retrieved...
- Trevor J. Nicholls. The Biology of the Cycads. New York : Cornell University Press, 1997. Jones, David L. Cycads of the World. Australia: Reed Books, 1993...
- covering which surrounds the seeds in flowering plants, that include conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophytes, forming the clade Gymno****e. The term gymnosperm...
- the Fires. Adapted from Dawn of the Cycads liner notes. Anderson, Rick. "Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: Dawn of the Cycads > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved March...
- than 390,000 years ago. The closest living relatives of the clade are the cycads, which share with the extant G. biloba the characteristic of motile sperm...