Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several evergreen species of the genus Zamia native to southern Florida, Mexico, and the West Indies, having compound leaves, unisexual cones, and conspicuously thickened underground stems that yield starch resembling arrowroot. Also called Florida arrowroot, Seminole bread.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The Zamia integrifolia, or arrowroot-plant of Florida, the only species of the Cycadaceæ native in the United States; also, the arrowroot produced from it.
Wiktionary
- n. Either of two arrowroots, Zamia integrifolia or Zamia floridana, cycadaceous plants of Florida and the West Indies, or the starch (sago) produced from these plants.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A cycadaceous plant of Florida and the West Indies, the Zamia integrifolia, from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba; roots and half-buried stems yield an arrowroot
Etymologies
- From Creek. (Wiktionary)
- Florida Creek kuntíi, arrowroot. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Plants such as coontie, plumbago, penta, flax lily, bush daisy and the ground cover, Asian jasmine, all do well with a minimum amount of care, Liakos explained.”
“In the front, homeowner Tammy Kovar built a hill between existing palm trees and planted an understory, layering such native plants as silvery-blue saw palmettos, paurotis palms, coontie palms and Simpson's stopper shrubs.”
“He had brought back a new species of orchid, several undescribed beetles, and a pocketful of coontie seed.”
“Zamia (coontie), a native plant, and dune sunflowers and palms give Advanced Medical Center its native splendor.”
“Please pass my e-mail address to the woman who is concerned about her coontie plants, and I will pick up the caterpillars and put them on my coontie plants.”
“They only lay their eggs on the coontie plant, which was almost wiped out by urban spread itself.”
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hernesheir This name rolls trippingly off my tongue. Sep 17, 2009
hernesheir (n): common name (of probable Seminole Indian origin) of the cycad Zamia floridana. The plant is also called "coontie palm'. However, since palms are angiosperms and cycads are gymnosperms, calling a coontie a palm is a misnomer. What's in a name? Dec 31, 2008