coontie

Noun

coon=tie

WORDNET DICTIONARY

coontie(n = noun.plant) florida arrowroot, seminole bread, zamia pumila - small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba; roots and half-buried stems yield an arrowroot;

is a kind of zamia

coontie, n.

A cycadaceous plant of Florida and the West Indies, the Zamia integrifolia, from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared. [1913 Webster]