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Cycad vs Gnetophyte - What's the difference?

cycad | gnetophyte |

As nouns the difference between cycad and gnetophyte

is that cycad is (botany) any plant of the division cycadophyta, as the sago palm, etc while gnetophyte is any of the plant division gnetophyta, consisting of woody plants that differ from other gymnosperms in having vessel elements (which transport water within the plant) as found in flowering plants.

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)

    gnetophyte

    English

    (wikipedia gnetophyte)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of the plant division Gnetophyta, consisting of woody plants that differ from other gymnosperms in having vessel elements (which transport water within the plant) as found in flowering plants.