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