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Definition of Cycas
1. Noun. Type genus of Cycadaceae: genus of widely distributed Old World evergreen tropical trees having pinnate leaves and columnar stems covered with persistent bases of old leaves.
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Genus
Group relationships: Cycad Family, Cycadaceae, Family Cycadaceae
Member holonyms: Cycas Circinalis, False Sago, Fern Palm
Definition of Cycas
1. n. A genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago.
Definition of Cycas
1. a tropical plant [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cycas
Literary usage of Cycas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1906)
"Notes on Cycads: with exhibition of a rare species (cycas ... The following is
the diagnosis of the new species:—" cycas ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The young leaves of cycas consist of a straight rachis bearing numerous linear
pinnae, ... The male flower of cycas conforms to the type of structure ..."
3. Fossil Botany: Being an Introduction to Palaeophytology from the Standpoint by Hermann Solms-Laubach, Henry Edward Fowler Garnsey (1891)
"The genus cycas is a singular type without any near relatives in modern vegetation.
... We find leaves with all the characters of those of cycas, ..."
4. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1905)
"cycas. The carpels of cycas revoluta are smaller than the foliage-leaves but they
show still at their ... Only in cycas circinalis are the pinnules indi- ..."
5. The Living Cycads by Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1919)
"cycas cycas, the genus which extends from Japan to Australia, is represented in
Queensland by four or perhaps five species (Fig. 14). ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"Spermatogenesis in cycas. a. Body cell in pollen tube with two ... The nucleus
in cycas puts forth a papilla (Fig. loc) which meets this line of granules ..."
7. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"In Florida, according to H. Nehrung who has a plantation at Gotha, near the center
of the Most of the species of cycas are arborescent, having a trunk ..."
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