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Definition of Macrozamia
1. Noun. Any treelike cycad of the genus Macrozamia having erect trunks and pinnate leaves and large cones with sometimes edible nuts; Australia.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Macrozamia
Literary usage of Macrozamia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Cycads by Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1919)
"Two genera, macrozamia with about a dozen species and Bowenia with two species,
... macrozamia The name macrozamia was doubtless intended to mean "the big ..."
2. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1904)
"PROCEEDINGS OF THE Notes on the Anatomy of macrozamia heteromera, ... Ten species
of the Australian genus macrozamia are natives of New South Wales, ..."
3. Gartenflora: Monatsschrift Fur Deutsche und Schweizerische Garten- und by Eduard Regel (1870)
"Pharm. Soc. of Victoria II pag. 90 (1858). — macrozamia ... Cyc. pag. 56.
— Lepidozamia minor Miq. mss. — macrozamia gigas et erio- lepis A. Brongn. mss. ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1849)
"The genus macrozamia, the scales of whose cone, whether male or female, ...
The only perceptible difference is, that in macrozamia the leaflets are ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"S.— macrozamia Fraseri. . Transverse section of trunk X }. ... But cones truly
lateral occur in both macrozamia and Bowenia, often in some number. ..."
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