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Coontie

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Noun

1. coontie, florida arrowroot, seminole bread, zamia pumila

small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba; roots and half-buried stems yield an arrowroot

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Coontie

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noun
1. 
an evergreen plant, Zamia floridana of S Florida, related to the cycads and having large dark green leathery leaves: family Zamiaceae
2. 
a starch derived from the underground stems of this plant

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Coontie

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noun
a tropical Floridian cycad (Zamia floridana) with underground trunks that yield a starch

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Coontie

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n.
Any of several evergreen cycads 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 an edible starch.

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