cycadaceous

English

Etymology

Cycadaceae +‎ -ous

Adjective

cycadaceous (comparative more cycadaceous, superlative most cycadaceous)

1. (botany) Relating to, or resembling, the Cycadaceae, a family of plants like the palms but with exogenous wood.

   The sago palm is a cycadaceous plant.

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     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.