Cycas is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 30 anagrams from letters in Cycas (accsy).
From New Latin; See origin at cycad
From the nuts of the cycas circinalis, the Singalese prepare an inferior kind of starch, by pounding the fresh kernels.
The male plant produces once a year an enormous cone at the tip of the stem: cycas rumphii.
On one plain I noticed a cycas, caudice simplici vel dichotomo, and the Phœnix of yesterday.
In times of scarcity a species of sago (obtained from the cycas revoluta) is eaten.
It is a 'cycas revoluta,' of which I have a picture in our dictionary of Natural History!
cycas, four species, generally called Sago palm, as an English name.
The next day the settlers went to collect some, and returned to Granite House with an ample supply of cycas stems.
The fruit of the cycas angulata forms the principal food of the Australian aborigines during a portion of the year.
The best known of the genera is that of cycas, of which an illustration is given in fig. 74.
It is replaced by the Areca catechu; by Nipa fruticans, cycas circinalis, and a few others.