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Cycad vs Conifer - What's the difference?

cycad | conifer |

Conifer is a hyponym of cycad.



In botany terms the difference between cycad and conifer

is that cycad is any plant of the division Cycadophyta, as the sago palm, etc while conifer is a plant belonging to the conifers; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree.

cycad

English

(wikipedia cycad)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) Any plant of the division Cycadophyta, as the sago palm, etc.
  • *1933 , (Clark Ashton Smith), ‘Ubbo-Sathla’:
  • *:Then, after incomputable years, he was no longer man but a man-like beast, roving in forests of giant fern and calamite, or building an uncouth nest in the boughs of mighty cycads .
  • *2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 7:
  • *:I began to count the pools, each a flare of turquoise light lost behind the high walls of the villas with their screens of cycads and bougainvillaea.

    • Derived terms

    * cycadian * cycadean

    See also

    * (Cycadophyta)

    conifer

    English

    (wikipedia conifer)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) A plant belonging to the conifers; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * coniferous

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