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n. - Any of various plants of a certain genus, chiefly of tropical and subtropical America, having a short, tuberous stem and a crown of palmlike pinnate leaves.

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  • It is actually a zamia palm, in flower...taken down along the southern coast of W.A.
  • Grubs are got out of the gum – tree into which they eat their way, as also out of the roots of the mimosa, the leaves of the zamia, the trunk of the xanthorra, and a...
  • One Response to “Banks Dragging Their Feet In Getting Stimulus Loans To Small Businesses” zamia Says:
  • On passing the last, the party emerged on to poorly grassed, desolate-looking sandstone ridges, covered with grass-tree and zamia.
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