Definition of Cycas circinalis

1. Noun. Southeastern Indian cycad with palmlike foliage.

Exact synonyms: False Sago, Fern Palm
Group relationships: Cycas, Genus Cycas
Generic synonyms: Cycas Revoluta, Sago Palm

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cycas Circinalis

Cyatheaceae
Cyathostoma
Cyathostomum
Cybele
Cyber Monday
Cyberia
Cybil
Cybill
Cycadaceae
Cycadales
Cycadofilicales
Cycadophyta
Cycadophytina
Cycadopsida
Cycas
Cycas circinalis (current term)
Cycas revoluta
Cyclades
Cycladic
Cycladic civilisation
Cycladic civilization
Cycladic culture
Cyclamen hederifolium
Cyclamen neopolitanum
Cyclamen purpurascens
Cycliophora
Cycloloma
Cycloloma atriplicifolium
Cyclopean
Cyclopean architecture

Literary usage of Cycas circinalis

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

1. Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks by Joseph Banks, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1896)
"... board ship—Prince's Island- Visit the town—Account of Prince's Island—Produce—Religion—Nuts of Cycas circinalis—Town—Houses—Bargaining—Language—Affinity ..."

2. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"They all abound in a mucilaginous nauseous juice, and the soft centres of Cycas circinalis and C. revoluta are convertible into a kind of sago. ..."

3. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1829)
"The Botanical Magazine, for June, contains Cycas circinalis (circa*, a circle; ... In a botanical point of view, the Cycas circinalis is interesting, ..."

4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1851)
"The Dublin College, on the other hand, declare it to be " the farina from the interior of the trunk" of the " Cycas circinalis ; but add that " it is also ..."

5. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"THE EMBRYO The first comparatively full account of the development of the embryo is that given by Treub 14 for Cycas circinalis, and this account has been ..."

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