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Definition of Order cycadales
1. Noun. Primitive tropical gymnosperms abundant in the Mesozoic, now reduced to a few scattered tropical forms.
Generic synonyms: Plant Order
Group relationships: Class Cycadopsida, Cycadophyta, Cycadophytina, Cycadopsida, Subdivision Cycadophyta, Subdivision Cycadophytina
Member holonyms: Cycad Family, Cycadaceae, Family Cycadaceae, Family Zamiaceae, Zamia Family, Zamiaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Cycadales
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. ..."