Definitions for cycas
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1. Cycas, genus Cycasnoun

   type genus of Cycadaceae: 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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1. Cycas

   Cycas is a genus of plants belonging to a very ancient lineage, the Cycadophyta, which are not closely related to palms, ferns, trees or any other modern group of plants. They are evergreen perennials which achieved their maximum diversity in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, when they were distributed almost worldwide. At the end of the Cretaceous, when the non-avian dinosaurs became extinct, so did most of the cycas in the Northern Hemisphere. Cycas is the type genus and the only extant genus recognised in the family Cycadaceae. About 113 species are accepted. Cycas circinalis, a species endemic to India, was the first cycad species to be described in western literature, and was the type of the generic name, Cycas. The best-known Cycas species is Cycas revoluta.

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1. cycas

   Cycas is a genus of plants belonging to the family Cycadaceae, native to various regions of the world especially the equatorial regions. They are evergreen, gymnospermous, palm-like plants, also known as cycads, characterized by stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, pinnate leaves. Cycas species are dioecious, meaning individual plants are either male or female. They are also among the oldest living seed plants, often being referred to as 'living fossils'.

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1. Cycasnoun

   a genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago

2. Etymology: [Of uncertain origin. Linnus derives it from one of the obscure Greek words.]

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1. Cycas

   Cycas is the type genus and the only genus recognised in the family Cycadaceae. About 95 species are accepted. The best-known species is Cycas revoluta, widely cultivated under the name "sago palm" or "king sago palm" due to its palm-like appearance, although it is not a true palm. The genus is native to the Old World, with the species concentrated around the equatorial regions - eastern and southeastern Asia including the Philippines with 10 species, eastern Africa, northern Australia, Polynesia, and Micronesia. Australia has 26 species, while the Indo-Chinese area has about 30. The northernmost species is found at 31°N in southern Japan. The southernmost is found at 26°S in southeast Queensland. The plants are dioecious, and the family Cycadaceae is unique among the cycads in not forming seed cones on female plants, but rather a group of leaf-like structures each with seeds on the lower margins, and pollen cones on male individuals. The caudex is cylindrical, surrounded by the persistent petiole base. Most species form distinct branched or unbranched trunks but in some species the main trunk can be subterranean with the leaf crown appearing to arise directly from the ground. The leaves are pinnate and arranged spirally, with thick and hard keratinose. The leaflets are articulated, have midrib but lack secondary veins. Megasporophylls are not gathered in cones.

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1. Cycas

   A plant genus of the family Cycadaceae, order Cycadales, class Cycadopsida, division CYCADOPHYTA of palm-like trees. It is a source of CYCASIN, the beta-D-glucoside of methylazoxymethanol.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of cycas in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

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   The numerical value of cycas in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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References

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