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Definition of Coontie
1. Noun. Small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba; roots and half-buried stems yield an arrowroot.
Definition of Coontie
1. n. A cycadaceous plant of Florida and the West Indies, the Zamia integrifolia, from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared.
Definition of Coontie
1. Noun. ''Zamia integrifolia'', a cycadaceous plant of Florida and the West Indies, from whose stems a kind of sago is prepared. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coontie
1. a tropical plant [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coontie
Literary usage of Coontie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"... it has one small representative (Zamia media, the coontie) at the south-eastern
extremity of the United States, and a more striking one (Cycas revoluta, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"abundant starch of the coontie passing eb and settling in a deerhide. ...
The coontie starch, when extracted in proper mills, is tuner and whiter ..."
3. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1886)
"The construction of a well is the essential and most troublesome work in the
manufacture of starch, since there is no fresh water wherever the coontie plant ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"Though attributed to Southern Florida, where it is still common, the coontie (Zamia
integrifolia Willd.) is found to extend as far north as Alachua, ..."
5. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"Even coontie (coontie Adka), the name of a preparation obtained from the root,
known more familiarly as Arrow-Root (Zamia integrifolia), ..."
6. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"It has the flowers and fruits of the pine family and might be said to be the
connecting link between the pines and the palms. The Zamia or coontie is found ..."
7. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580 by Robert Glover, William Flower, William Fellows, Thomas Benolt, Thomas Chaloner, John Paul Rylands (1882)
"... in the coontie of C-ester and of Elizabethe ... coontie of Salopp Esquire and
bj hym had [married" Ceo. ..."
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