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Definition of Macrozamia spiralis

1. Noun. Large attractive palmlike evergreen cycad of New South Wales.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Macrozamia Spiralis

Literary usage of Macrozamia spiralis

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

1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1849)
"Macrozamia spiralis.—The genus Macrozamia, the scales of whose cone, ... The decurrent leaflets of Macrozamia spiralis are especially apparent in the young ..."

2. The Living Cycads by Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1919)
"No other cycads look so much like palms as do some of the species, like Macrozamia spiralis and nearly related forms. The genus is identified by a single ..."

3. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1850)
"Macrozamia spiralis. The genus Macrozamia, the scales of whose cone, ... The decurrent leaflets of Macrozamia spiralis are especially apparent in the young ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1910)
"Macrozamia spiralis, Miq.—A Reputed Cattle Poison.—EM Holmes has received some seeds of Macrozamia spiralis, Miq., forwarded to the Museum of the ..."

5. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1875)
"In the class for six Cycads Mr. Bull staged a valuable group, consisting of Dioon edule, Cycas revoluta, Macrozamia spiralis. and ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... paradoxa forms thickets in southeastern Africa and Macrozamia spiralis forms a scrub over considerable areas in eastern Australia. ..."

7. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"... and Macrozamia spiralis, where they may perhaps be regarded as metamorphosed bifurcations of the ..."

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