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cycad (iou)



cycad noun. M19.
[from mod. Latin Cycas genus name, from supposed Greek kukas, scribal error for koikas accus. pl. of koix Egyptian doum-palm: see -AD1.]
An evergreen palmlike gymnospermous plant of the order Cycadales (including many fossil forms), and esp. of the genus Cycas, some members of which yield sago.
cy'cadean adjective of, pertaining to, or resembling (that of) a cycad M19.
cy'cadeoid adjective & noun (of, pertaining to, or designating) a cycadophyte of the extinct Mesozoic order Bennettitales (of Cycadeoidales) M19.
cyca'daceous adjective of or pertaining to a cycad or the cycads, or the family Cycadaceae M19.
cycadophyte noun a plant of the group Cycadophyta, which includes cycads and related fossil forms M20.