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- noun Plural form of
cycad .
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Examples
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Those trees to your left and right are called cycads, the prehistoric predecessors of palm trees.
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Plants called cycads are among these rare "living fossils" - they have remained pretty much unchanged for more than 300 million years, but a study in
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Plants called cycads are among these rare "living fossils" - they have remained pretty much unchanged for more than 300 million years, but a study in
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Plants called cycads are among these rare "living fossils" - they have remained pretty much unchanged for more than 300 million years, but a study in
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Plants called cycads are among these rare "living fossils" - they have remained pretty much unchanged for more than 300 million years, but a study in
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The bats ate up to 2.5 times their body weight (which can be as much as a pound for the species on Guam) in food such as cycads seeds every night and, on special occasions, Chamorros ate the bats.
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Plants prohibited from import include many cycads, orchids and cacti.
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Plants prohibited from import include many cycads, orchids and cacti.
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I like to use tropical looking plants in our yard – usually numerous banana trees, one palm, a number of canna, tropical looking hosta, hanging baskets, and in pots an agave tree, a century plant cactus and two sago palm cycads.
The Great Tropical Plant Experiment of 2008 « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
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Near the summit grow cycads—stout-trunked, palm-like, cone-bearing trees that evolved in the late Carboniferous, 300 million years ago; they were among the first plants to have both cones and seeds.
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