noun. Any of several evergreen cycads of the genus Zamia native to southern Florida, Mexico, and the West Indies, having compound leaves, unisexual cones, and conspicuously thickened underground stems that yield an edible starch.

noun. The Zamia integrifolia, or arrowroot-plant of Florida, the only species of the Cycadaceæ native in the United States; also, the arrowroot produced from it.

noun. A cycadaceous plant of Florida and the West Indies, the Zamia integrifolia, from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared.

noun. Either of two arrowroots, Zamia integrifolia or Zamia floridana, cycadaceous plants of Florida and the West Indies, or the starch (sago) produced from these plants.

noun. small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba; roots and half-buried stems yield an arrowroot

"Plants such as coontie, plumbago, penta, flax lily, bush daisy and the ground cover, Asian jasmine, all do well with a minimum amount of care, Liakos explained."

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