The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cycadaceous
Cycadaceous \Cyc`a*da"ceous\ (s?k`?-d?"sh?s or s?`k?-), a. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example.
Wiktionary
cycadaceous
a. (context botany English) Relating to, or resembling, the ''(taxlink Cycadaceae family noshow=1)'', a family of plants like the palms but with exogenous wood.
Usage examples of "cycadaceous".
After a few hundred yards of thick forest, containing many trees which were quite unknown to me, but which Summerlee, who was the botanist of the party, recognized as forms of conifera and of cycadaceous plants which have long passed away in the world below, we entered a region where the stream widened out and formed a considerable bog.