Zamia is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 29 anagrams from letters in Zamia (aaimz).
1810-20; New Latin, misreading of Latin (Pliny) (nucēs) azāniae (plural) pine cone (nuts)
What I call the umbrella palm, but what they call here the cabbage palm—a sort of zamia alsophila—grew abundantly in groups.
On passing the last, the party emerged on to poorly grassed, desolate-looking sandstone ridges, covered with grass-tree and zamia.
Many of the plants speak the same language—especially the zamia.
The other starch, from the Western Australian zamia, in quality rivalled arrowroot.
Even zamia pectinata may, as Sternberg remarks, have been a fern.
Kaiber here brought in some of the nuts of the zamia tree; they were dry and therefore in a fit state to eat.
In consequence of the prevalence of this plant, I called the creek "zamia Creek."