| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | za·mi·a |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  z  m - |
| NOUN: | Any of various chiefly tropical American cycads of the genus Zamia, having a thick, usually underground trunk, palmlike terminal leaves, and seeds borne in woody cones. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin Zamia, genus name, from misreading of (n cs) azniae, pine cone (nuts), probably from Greek azainein, to dry up, from azein, to dry. See as- in Appendix I.
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