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zamia

DEFINITIONS OF: zamia

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n any of various cycads of the genus Zamia; among the smallest and most verdant cycads

Types:
Florida arrowroot, Seminole bread, Zamia pumila, coontie
small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba; roots and half-buried stems yield an arrowroot
Type of:
cycad
any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves
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