DIOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dioon mean? 

• DIOON (noun)
  The noun DIOON has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: DIOON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIOON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("dioon" is a kind of...):

cycad (any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves)

Holonyms ("dioon" is a member of...):

genus Dioon (small genus of arborescent cycads of Mexico and Central America; sometimes classified in family Cycadaceae)