coontie

coon·tie  (knt)

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.

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[Florida Creek kuntíi, arrowroot.]

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coontie [ˈkuːntɪ]

n

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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Noun

1.

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