Definition of Cycadales

1. Noun. Primitive tropical gymnosperms abundant in the Mesozoic, now reduced to a few scattered tropical forms.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cycadales

Cyanocitta
Cyanocitta cristata
Cyanophyceae
Cyanophyta
Cyathea
Cyathea medullaris
Cyatheaceae
Cyathostoma
Cyathostomum
Cybele
Cyber Monday
Cyberia
Cybil
Cybill
Cycadaceae
Cycadales
Cycadofilicales
Cycadophyta
Cycadophytina
Cycadopsida
Cycas
Cycas circinalis
Cycas revoluta
Cyclades
Cycladic
Cycladic civilisation
Cycladic civilization
Cycladic culture
Cyclamen hederifolium
Cyclamen neopolitanum

Literary usage of Cycadales

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"cycadales During the Mesozoic, along with the ... the cycadales undoubtedly existed, but the evidence is scanty. The reputation of the Mesozoic as " the age ..."

2. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"cycadales At present the Cycads are strictly tropical forms, the nine genera, containing something less than one hundred species, being distributed about ..."

3. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"Among the cycadales, where the integument and nucellus are free only above, the outer set of vascular strands traverses the outer fleshy layer of the testa ..."

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