cycad (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *cycad*:
NOUN	plant	cycad	any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales

English > *cycad*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves.
Narrower	burrawong, Macrozamia communis, Macrozamia spiralis	large attractive palmlike evergreen cycad of New South Wales
	ceratozamia	A small cycad of the genus Ceratozamia having a short scaly woody trunk and fernlike foliage and woody cones
	dioon	Any cycad of the genus Dioon
	encephalartos	Any of numerous cycads of the genus Encephalartos having stout cylindrical trunks and a terminal crown of long often spiny pinnate leaves
	kaffir bread, Encephalartos caffer	South African cycad
	macrozamia	Any treelike cycad of the genus Macrozamia having erect trunks and pinnate leaves and large cones with sometimes edible nuts
	sago palm, Cycas revoluta	Dwarf palmlike cycad of Japan that yields sago
	zamia	Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia
Broader	gymnosperm	plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary
Spanish	cicadácea, cycadophyta
Catalan	cicadàcia, cicadofití

HyperDic: cycad