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cycad

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I hope I live to see the day another cycad is found, and the species returns to flourish on the Earth..

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(botany) Any plant of the division Cycadophyta, having a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, evergreen leaves.

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noun

(botany) Any plant of the division Cycadophyta, having a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, evergreen leaves.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cycad.

noun

(botany) Any plant of the division Cycadophyta, having a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, evergreen leaves.

Example sentences

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I hope I live to see the day another cycad is found, and the species returns to flourish on the Earth..

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And keep doing that until there's >95% cycad genetics.

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Another last male living thing: a cycad in London.

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Ever heard of Fossil Cycad National Monument?

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I grew up with cycads in Australia and just contributed the first iNat photograph of a rare wild cycad[X] here in China a few months ago.

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In fact I previously used only 6000K LED strips (in an insulated box so no other light at all) on cycad and other seeds and got very healthy plants.

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Personally I wouldn't class a cycad as a tree, nor a date palm, and I wouldn't call a lepidodendron one either, but after a bit of reflection I've no good reason to take that view, so thanks for all this!

Quote examples

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> “Vegetarian dinosaurs dined on ferns, floating water plants, and the palmlike cycad.

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"75 percent of cycad species are at risk of extinction (by poachers)"...

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"Tree" is a paraphyletic taxon; today you have conifer trees, angiosperm trees, cycad trees, and so on, all of which are more closely related to non-tree plants than to each other.

Proper noun examples

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Cycad trees are known to be highly carcinogenic.

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How do you use cycad in a sentence?

I hope I live to see the day another cycad is found, and the species returns to flourish on the Earth..

What does cycad mean?

(botany) Any plant of the division Cycadophyta, having a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, evergreen leaves.

What part of speech is cycad?

cycad is commonly used as noun.