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Definition of Genus zamia

1. Noun. Genus of small evergreen tropical and subtropical American cycads.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Zamia

Literary usage of Genus zamia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1855)
"The stem most nearly resembles that of the West Indian genus Zamia. It is short and thick, covered with a brown cuticle, and marked by parallel bands and ..."

2. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1855)
"The stem most nearly resembles that of the West Indian genus Zamia. It is short and thick, covered with a brown cuticle, and marked by parallel bands and ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"Carruthers recognized the undesirability of referring such forms to the genus Zamia, and therefore founded the genus ..."

4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1844)
"... it necessarily follows, from their being furnished with characters which are not to be found in species of the existing genus Zamia and its allies, ..."

5. Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des japanischen Riesensalamanders by Charles Stuart Gager, Daniel Lange (1916)
"Cycadaceae.1 Genus. Zamia. Species. floridana. B. Habitat: 1. Most of the Cycadales occur only within the tropics, but two genera, Zamia and Cycas, ..."

6. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1849)
"Genus ZAMIA. Zamia furfuracea.—There are two fine old plants in the Botanic Gardens at Cambridge and Chelsea, which are males, and bear cones almost every ..."

7. The English Cyclopaediaby Charles Knight by Charles Knight (1867)
"The genus Zamia has many representatives in a fossil state. Of the sixteen species that have been discovered, twelve resemble so nearly the recent species ..."

8. Dictionary of Geology and Mineralogy: Comprising Such Terms in Botany by William Humble (1843)
"In Lindley and Mutton's Fossil Flora figures of cones are given which are referred to the genus Zamia, from the sandstone of the Wealden formation at ..."

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