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cycad

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈsaɪkəd/Part of speech nounSorted accdyStarts with CEnds with D0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A palm-like seed plant with a crown of stiff leaves.

Word origin

From translingual Cycas (“genus of tropical trees”).

Used in a sentence

  • Then, after incomputable years, he was no longer man but a man-like beast, roving in forests of giant fern and calamite, or building an uncouth nest in the boughs of mighty cycads.
  • I began to count the pools, each a flare of turquoise light lost behind the high walls of the villas with their screens of cycads and bougainvillaea.

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