Cycads is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 62 anagrams from letters in cycads (accdsy).
1835-45; New Latin Cycad- (stem of Cycas) genus name Greek kýkas, misspelling of kóïkas, accusative plural of kóïx kind of palm
Palms are so like cycads that we may regard them as the descendants of some cycad type.
As a consequence they have become so unlike that one kind of cycad is never found in both hemispheres.
cycad, sī′kad, n. an order allied to Conifer, but in appearance rather resembling ferns and palms.
Bowenia, an Australian cycad, is peculiar in having bi-pinnate fronds (fig. 5).
There has been found at Luccombe a very remarkable fruit of a kind of cycad.
The anatomy of the main stem is very suggestive of that of a cycad.
But the most frequent and characteristic tree of the Jurassic landscape is the cycad.