cycad

käpypalmu puhekieltä Any plant of the division Cycadophyta, as the sago palm, etc.
1933, (w), ‘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.

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.