cycad
Meaning of cycad
noun
a palmlike plant of tropical and subtropical regions, bearing large male or female cones. Cycads were abundant during the Triassic and Jurassic eras, but have since been in decline.
mid 19th century: from modern Latin Cycas, Cycad- (order name), from supposed Greek kukas, scribal error for koikas, plural of koix ‘Egyptian palm’.
Information about cycad
- It is a name.
- The plural form of cycad is: cycads.
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Hyphenation of cycad
cy-cad
- It consists of 2 syllables and 5 chars.
- cycad is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with cycad
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