cycad

How To Use cycad In A Sentence

• Many cycads may be grown outdoors in California and the southern United States, but they cannot seem to tolerate the less equable climate in other parts of the nation.
• The early Mesozoic was dominated by ferns, cycads, ginkgophytes, bennettitaleans, and other unusual plants.
• The idea that cycads stem from Carboniferous so-called pteridosperms (‘seed ferns’ or seed plants with fern-like foliage) has long been popular with paleobotanists.
• The unusual surface textures of fossil cycads have been interesting curiosities to collectors for a long time.
• Investigators have suggested that these fossils represent new growth from cycads, deciduous trees, ginkgos and, most commonly, conifer trees.
• The breadfruit trees, cycads and tall hardwoods of that forest hide hornbills, sea eagles and monkeys.
• The microsprophylls of cycads are arranged in strobili and bear clusters of microsporangia on their abaxial surface.
• Modern cycads are tropical plants whose ancestors can be traced in the fossil record for about 300 million years.
• Concretions of chalcedony after barite can be confused with cycads, and the wise collector must learn to differentiate between the two.
• Apart from a long list of game in the park which includes giraffe, zebra, hippos, warthogs and a large variety of buck, the park is home to thousands of cycads of all sorts and sizes.