English-Thai Dictionary
cycad
N พืช พวก Cycadales มี ลักษณะ คล้าย เฟิร์น หรือ ปาล์ม
cycadaceous
A เกี่ยวกับ พืช ประเภท Cycadales
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CYCAD
CYCAD Cy "cad (s "kd ), n. (Bot. )
Defn: Any plant of the natural order Cycadeceæ, as the sago palm, etc.
CYCADACEOUS
CYCADACEOUS Cyc `a *da "ceous (sk `-d "shs or s `k- ), a. (Bot. )
Defn: Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example.
New American Oxford Dictionary
cycad
cy cad |ˈsīkəd, ˈsīˌkad ˈsaɪkəd | ▶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. [Class Cycadopsida, subdivision Gymnospermae: twenty species in the genus Cycas and family Cycadaceae. ] ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from modern Latin Cycas, Cycad- (order name ), from supposed Greek kukas, scribal error for koikas, plural of koix ‘Egyptian palm. ’
Oxford Dictionary
cycad
cycad |ˈsʌɪkad | ▶noun a palm-like 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. ●Class Cycadopsida, subdivision Gymnospermae: twenty species in the genus Cycas and family Cycadaceae. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from modern Latin Cycas, Cycad- (order name ), from supposed Greek kukas, scribal error for koikas, plural of koix ‘Egyptian palm ’.
The Wordsmith Dictionary