单词 | cycad |
释义 | cycad (once / 59394 pages) n WORD FAMILY cycad: cycads USAGE EXAMPLESHighway 18, oblivious to the nondescript patch of land that was formerly the Fossil Cycad National Monument. Washington Times(Jul 23, 2016) The main garden has a dazzling collection of palm trees, including rare and primitive species, along with bamboo, birds of paradise and cycads. New York Times(May 25, 2016) Experts identified it in algae-rich pools of water and in the roots and seeds of the native cycad palm trees. BBC(Jan 20, 2016) n any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves Hypo|Hyper Cycas revoluta, sago palm dwarf palmlike cycad of Japan that yields sago zamiaany of various cycads of the genus Zamia; among the smallest and most verdant cycads ceratozamiaa small cycad of the genus Ceratozamia having a short scaly woody trunk and fernlike foliage and woody cones; Mexico dioonany cycad of the genus Dioon; handsome palmlike cycads with robust crowns of leaves and rugged trunks encephalartosany of numerous cycads of the genus Encephalartos having stout cylindrical trunks and a terminal crown of long often spiny pinnate leaves Encephalartos caffer, kaffir breadSouth African cycad; the farinaceous pith of the fruit used as food macrozamiaany treelike cycad of the genus Macrozamia having erect trunks and pinnate leaves and large cones with sometimes edible nuts; Australia Macrozamia communis, Macrozamia spiralis, burrawonglarge attractive palmlike evergreen cycad of New South Wales Cycas circinalis, false sago, fern palmsoutheastern Indian cycad with palmlike foliage Florida arrowroot, Seminole bread, Zamia pumila, coontiesmall tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba; roots and half-buried stems yield an arrowroot gymnosperm plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary |
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