cycadaceous
English
Etymology
Cycadaceae + -ous
Adjective
cycadaceous (comparative more cycadaceous, superlative most cycadaceous)
- (botany) Relating to, or resembling, the Cycadaceae, a family of plants like the palms but with exogenous wood.
- The sago palm is a cycadaceous plant.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cycadaceous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)