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Small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba
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coontie
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba; roots and half-buried stems yield an arrowroot [syn: Florida arrowroot , Seminole bread , Zamia pumila ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coontie \Coon"tie\, 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.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Either of two arrowroots, (taxlink Zamia integrifolia species noshow=1) or (taxlink Zamia floridana species noshow=1), cycadaceous plants of Florida and the West Indies, or the starch (sago) produced from these plants.
Usage examples of coontie.
Seasons when vegetables was short, we'd pole up the Glades creeks to the pine ridges, gather coontie root for starch and flour, cut cabbage-palm tops in the hammocks and some Injun greens.