ZAMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does zamia mean? 

• ZAMIA (noun)
  The noun ZAMIA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ZAMIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZAMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("zamia" is a kind of...):

cycad (any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "zamia"):

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)

Holonyms ("zamia" is a member of...):

genus Zamia (genus of small evergreen tropical and subtropical American cycads)