cycad
苏铁,苏木,苏合香,苏打
Definitions
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- : any gymnospermous plant of the order Cycadales, intermediate in appearance between ferns and the palms, many species having a thick, unbranched, columnar trunk bearing a crown of large, leathery, pinnate leaves.
Examples
Animals like dinosaurs and plants like cycads, says Ruffell, were “waiting in the wings” to seize their opportunity.
Therapods had a varied diet, while herbivores chowed down on ferns, cycads, and conifers, to name some ancient plants that are still around today.
As dinosaurs lumbered through the humid cycad forests of ancient South America 180 million years ago, primeval lizards scurried, unnoticed, beneath their feet.
It was thickly covered with a fine cycad which grows amongst the rocks overhanging the sea.
At Treasury Island I found a solitary cycad at a height of a thousand feet above the sea.
Bowenia, an Australian cycad, is peculiar in having bi-pinnate fronds (fig. 5).
Palms are so like cycads that we may regard them as the descendants of some cycad type.
Opposite me is a funny old cycad, not branched at all but bent.