cycad family

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1. ancient palmlike plants closely related to ferns in that fertilization is by means of spermatozoids (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	gymnosperm family,
definition	:	a family of gymnosperms (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	cycas, genus cycas,
definition	:	type genus of Cycadaceae: genus of widely distributed Old World evergreen tropical trees having pinnate leaves and columnar stems covered with persistent bases of old leaves (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	cycadales, order cycadales,
definition	:	primitive tropical gymnosperms abundant in the Mesozoic, now reduced to a few scattered tropical forms (noun.plant)