Definition of Order Cycadales

1. Noun. Primitive tropical gymnosperms abundant in the Mesozoic, now reduced to a few scattered tropical forms.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Cycadales

order Coccidia
order Coleoptera
order Collembola
order Columbiformes
order Colymbiformes
order Commelinales
order Coniferales
order Conodonta
order Conodontophorida
order Coraciiformes
order Cordaitales
order Corrodentia
order Crocodilia
order Crocodylia
order Cuculiformes
order Cycadales (current term)
order Cycadofilicales
order Cyclostomata
order Cydippea
order Cydippida
order Cydippidea
order Cypriniformes
order Decapoda
order Dermaptera
order Dermoptera
order Diapensiales
order Dicranales
order Dictyoptera
order Dinocerata
order Dinoflagellata

Literary usage of Order Cycadales

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"Order CYCADALES. Plants growing by lateral as well as by terminal buds, with scale-like, flat or needle- like leaves not circinate: embryo not prolonged ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"... all referable to a single order, Cycadales. This latter view is supported by Wieland, who believes that ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"No existing group of plants lias excited more interest in recent years than the existing cycads (order Cycadales). Before the peculiarly organized Mesozoic ..."

4. Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des japanischen Riesensalamanders by Charles Stuart Gager, Daniel Lange (1916)
"Order. Cycadales. Family. Cycadaceae.1 Genus. Zamia. Species. floridana. B. Habitat: 1. Most of the Cycadales occur only within the tropics, but two genera, ..."

5. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"Order CYCADALES. With the characters of the class. Family 6. Cycadaceae. Mostly tropical trees with staminate cones only.—Cycas. ..."

6. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"... order Cycadales) have thick stems which rarely branch and are generally rather short, resembling immense tubers partly buried in the ground (Fig. ..."

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