Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Cycas"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cycas \Cy"cas\ (s?"k?s), n. [Of uncertain origin. Linn[ae]us
derives it from one of the ``obscure Greek words.''] (Bot.)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Cycas
n : 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 [syn: {Cycas}, {genus Cycas}]
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