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Cyclades
Group of about 220 islands, S Aegean Sea. They cover a land area of 976 sq mi (2,528 sq km), and constitute the Cyclades department (pop., 1991: 94,000) of Greece, which has its capital at Ermoupolis. Their name refers to the ancient tradition that they formed a circle around the sacred island of Delos. The chief islands are Andros, Tinos, Naxos, Amorgos, Melos, Paros, Syros, Kea, Kithnos, Serifos, Ios, and Thera. They were the center of a Bronze Age culture, the Cycladic, noted for its white marble idols, and later belonged to the Mycenaean culture in the 2nd millennium BC. Colonized by Ionians in the 10th-9th cent. BC, they later were successively held by Persians, Athenians, Ptolemaic Egypt, and Macedonia. Ruled by Venice after the early 13th cent, the islands fell to the Turks in 1566. They became part of Greece in 1829. The economy is now based on tourism and on the export of wine, hides, pottery, and handicrafts.


cycad
Any of the palmlike woody plants that constitute the order Cycadales, containing four families: Cycadaceae, Zamiaceae, Stangeriaceae, and Boweniaceae. Cycads have crowns of large, feathery compound leaves and cones at the ends of their branches. Some have tall, unbranched, armorlike trunks; others have partially buried stems with swollen trunks. Slow-growing cycads are used as ornamental conservatory plants, but some survive outdoors in temperate regions. The stems of some cycads yield starch that is edible if thoroughly cooked. The young leaves and seeds of others also are edible.


cyclamen
Any of about 15 species of flowering perennial herbaceous plants that make up the genus Cyclamen, in the primrose family (Primulaceae), native to the Middle East and S and central Europe. The florist's cyclamen (C. persicum), the best-known species, is an indoor plant cultivated for its attractive white to pink to deep red flowers. Long-stalked, roundish, or kidney-shaped leaves, often variously marked, grow from the base of the plant, which has no aboveground stem. Solitary flowers grow on stalks less than 12 in. (30 cm) tall.


cycling
Use of the bicycle in competitive sport or in recreation. The classic professional races are held mainly in Europe; the first was held in Paris in 1868. There are basically two types of race: road races and track races. The first U.S. cycling competition, a six-day race, was held in 1891. Six-day racing was reintroduced to Europe as a two-man team event in the 20th cent., but it has largely died out in the U.S. The first Tour de France, the premier race, was held in 1903. Cycling has been part of the Olympics since the first modern games in 1896. Events include a variety of open-road and circuit races for both men and women.


cyclone
Any large system of winds that rotates about a center of low atmospheric pressure in a counterclockwise direction north of the equator and in a clockwise direction south of it. ...

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