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cycad::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | gymnosperm |
| Has types | ceratozamia, cycas revoluta, dioon, encephalartos, encephalartos caffer, kaffir bread, macrozamia, macrozamia communis, macrozamia spiralis, sago palm, burrawong, zamia |
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The Sago palm is really a cycad, one of the world's most ancient types of plants.
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Funding includes about $50,000 annually in grant funding for cycad scale research.
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Lessons learned on Guam may benefit cycad conservationists in those other countries.
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The key is a pungent odour emitted by the male cycad cones during the mating season.
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Properly dried cycad seed flour may be stored for several years without deterioration.
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The sago cycad, Cycas revoluta, is a slow-growing wild or ornamental plant.
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The thrips enter male cycad cones to eat the pollen, and get covered by it in the process.
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Tom Broome says mulching sago plants with coffee grounds helps control Asian cycad scale.
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And his cycad reveals nothing of how sick the artist got from eating its poisonous nuts.
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- Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves
- Cycads are seed plants characterized by a large crown of compound leaves and a stout trunk. They are evergreen, dioecious plants having large pinnately compound leaves. ...
- Any plant of the natural order Cycadaceae, as the sago palm, etc
- (cycads) Group of gymnosperm seed plants that have large fern-like leaves and reproduce by cones but not flowers.
- Hard-leaved shrub or small tree of the order Cycadales. These plants are cone-bearing (gymnosperm, or non-flowering plant) with an ancient heritage, thought to have first evolved about 100 million years ago.
- Seed-bearing plant similar in appearance to modern palm trees.
- A tropical plant of fern-like appearance
- An evolutionary link between ferns and angiosperms (flowering plants). In the stages of plant evolution, the cycads and conifers are more advanced than the ferns but not as advanced as the flowering plants that would follow at the end of the Jurassic period. ...
- Any plant of the order Cycadales, consisting of palm-like, cone-bearing, evergreen tropical plants that reproduce by means of spermatozoids and have large pinnately compound, usually fan-shaped leaves.
