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n. - Genus of widely distributed Old World evergreen tropical trees having pinnate leaves and columnar stems covered with persistent bases of old leaves.

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Usage examples (26)
  • Cycas revoluta leaves uncurling, originally uploaded by Amelia PS.
  • Cycas, caudice simplici vel dichotomo, and the Phoenix of yesterday.
  • Brown: Australian Cycas, or Sago Palm: Fibrous and coarse, similar to Palm: 4 to 15: 4 to 6.
  • Cycas first make their appearance, but we had no time now or rather then to examine any thing.
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