coontie

coon·tie (k

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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.

[Florida Creek kuntíi, arrowroot.]

coontie [ˈkuːntɪ]

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) an evergreen plant, Zamia floridana of S Florida, related to the cycads and having large dark green leathery leaves: family Zamiaceae

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) a starch derived from the underground stems of this plant

[from Seminole kunti flour from this plant]

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

Florida arrowroot, Seminole bread, Zamia pumila

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

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Florida arrowroot
Seminole bread
zamia
Zamia pumila

Future butterfly introductions also may include federal lands such as Everglades National Park, which currently has one of the largest natural populations of coontie.

Student conservation scholarships announced by Parks & Recreation

Some of the species found on Pam's land are extremely rare, such as the Cycadaceae Zamia pumila, a low-growing fern-like coontie plant that serves as food for the Florida atala butterfly caterpillar (Eumaeus atala), which is a candidate for inclusion on the U.

A hurricane's silver lining by Davis, Norah Deakin / American Forests

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