dioon

noun

any cycad of the genus Dioon; handsome palmlike cycads with robust crowns of leaves and rugged trunks

• Hypernyms: ↑cycad

• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Dioon

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\\dīˈōˌän\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from di- + -oön (from Greek ōion egg) — more at egg

: a genus of plants (family Cycadaceae) having a somewhat conical trunk crowned by a large tuft of pinnate leaves with spine-tipped pinnae

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/duy"oh on'/, n.

any of several Mexican and Central American palmlike plants belonging to the genus Dioon, of the cycad family, having a crown of stiff, pinnate leaves.

[ < NL (1843) < Gk di- DI-¹ + oión egg; so named because the seeds are borne in pairs]