Crossword-Solution: CYCAD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cycad | n. | Any plant of the natural order Cycadaceae, as the sago palm, etc. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “CYCAD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CONIFER-related plant | 1 answer |
| Palm-like gymnosperm | 1 answer |
| Palm-like plant | 1 answer |
| Palmlike tropical plant | 1 answer |
| Sago palm. | 1 answer |
| SAGO-yielding plant | 2 answers |
| Tropical evergreen | 2 answers |
| palmlike tree | 3 answers |
| MESOZOIC flora | 3 answers |
| Palm | 58 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEEMAZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CYCAD (5)
Botanists, since the discovery of the bisexual flowers of the Bennettiteae, have expressed different views as to the nearness of their relation to the higher Flowering Plants, but the points of agreement are so many that it is difficult to resist the conviction that a real relation exists, and that the ancestry of the Angiosperms, so long shrouded in complete obscurity, is to be sought among the great plexus of Cycad-like plants which dominated the flora of the world in Mesozoic times.
See "Life and Letters," I., pages 356 et seq.)--I suppose a Cycad-Conifer with the habits of the mangrove.
The intractability of the Cycad is such that if cattle eat the leaves they die or become permanently afflicted with a disease of the nature of rickets.
Instantly I became conscious of a strange presence, and, glancing over my shoulder, saw an unfamiliar black boy lurking behind a glistening-fronded Cycad.
The Cycad under which the boy crouched was slim-shaped, and its foliage resembled that of one of the most beautiful of ferns, with languorous, dolorous fronds, while it was crowned with a huge fruit of golden-brown.
Quotes with CYCAD (1)
If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fail to catch the tiny, shrew-like ancestor of all the mammals, we should none of us be here.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, NYT.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1951–2017).