Cycas

How To Use Cycas In A Sentence

• Herbert was not mistaken: he broke the stem of a cycas, which was composed of a glandulous tissue, containing a quantity of floury pith, traversed with woody fiber, separated by rings of the same substance, arranged concentrically. The Mysterious Island
• Cyrus Harding and Herbert, after having examined that part of the Far West where the cycas grew, took their bearings, and returned to Granite House, where they made known their discovery. The Mysterious Island
• And yet, though _eons_ of the past eternity have elapsed since we looked out upon Cycas and Zamia, and the last of the Calamites, the time is still early, and long ages must lapse ere man shall arise out of the dust, to keep and to dress fields waving with the productions of yet another and different flora, and to busy himself with all the labor which he taketh under the sun. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
• However different a boyau may seem to many, yet when viewed in conjunction with Cycadeae, the graduation to the present case becomes natural, and even the resemblance may be perfect, because in Cycas the grains of pollen get into the nucleus bodily, although they would still seem to throw out short tails. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
• Granite House with an ample supply of cycas stems. The Mysterious Island
• A conservatory built in the center of the building on the south side contained a very interesting collection of orchids, cycas, and some tree ferns from the Philippines. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
• Chilades pandava is a new kind of insect harmful to sago cycas.
• This paper deals with the habitat, population structure and dynamics of Cycas tanqingii occurring in Xiaohei River area.
• “It is a ‘cycas revoluta,’ of which I have a picture in our dictionary of Natural History!” said The Mysterious Island
• We directed our steps to that part of the town where the better class seemed to reside, in cool, shady lanes, the houses embowered in large-leaved tropical trees, cocoa-nut, banana, bread-fruit, calabash, and other palms, with cycas and tree-ferns with stems some fifteen feet high. A Boy's Voyage Round the World