noun.
Any of various chiefly tropical American cycads of the genus Zamia, having a thick, usually underground stem, palmlike terminal leaves, and seeds borne in woody cones.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
A genus of gymnospermous plants, of the order Cycadaceæ, type of the tribe Zamieæ.
noun.
[l. c] A plant of this genus.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A genus of cycadaceous plants, having the appearance of low palms, but with exogenous wood. See coontie, and Illust. of strobile.