Definitions for zamias

zamias za·mi·a

Spelling: [zey-mee-uh]
IPA: /ˈzeɪ mi ə/

Zamias is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in zamias (aaimsz).

Definitions for zamias

noun

  1. any of various plants of the genus Zamia, chiefly of tropical and subtropical America, having a short, tuberous stem and a crown of palmlike pinnate leaves.

Origin of zamias

1810-20; New Latin, misreading of Latin (Pliny) (nucēs) azāniae (plural) pine cone (nuts)

Examples for zamias

Kaiber here brought in some of the nuts of the zamia tree; they were dry and therefore in a fit state to eat.

Many of the plants speak the same language—especially the zamia.

Even zamia pectinata may, as Sternberg remarks, have been a fern.

On passing the last, the party emerged on to poorly grassed, desolate-looking sandstone ridges, covered with grass-tree and zamia.

What I call the umbrella palm, but what they call here the cabbage palm—a sort of zamia alsophila—grew abundantly in groups.

In consequence of the prevalence of this plant, I called the creek "zamia Creek."

The other starch, from the Western Australian zamia, in quality rivalled arrowroot.

Word Value for zamias
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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