Translingual

Zamia furfuracea

Proper noun

Zamia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Zamiaceae – deciduous palm-like cycads.

Hyponyms

• (genus): Zamia pumila - type species

English

A zamia

Noun

zamia ‎(plural zamias)

1. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia
   • 1997, Knut Norstog & Trevor J. Nicholls, The Biology of the Cycads, page 19:

     It was, in fact, the starchy stems that in some cases led to depletion of wild zamias in some regions of Florida.

Hyponyms

• coontie, sago zamia, Jamaica sago tree, Zamia pumila - type species

Derived terms

• zamia staggers

See also

• zamia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• zamia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

French

Noun

zamia m ‎(plural zamias)

1. zamia (cycad)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζημία ‎(zēmía, “loss, damage”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈzaː.mi.a/

Noun

zāmia f ‎(genitive zāmiae); first declension

1. hurt, injury, damage, loss

Inflection

First declension.

Synonyms

• (damage): calamitās, damnum, dētrīmentum, iactūra, intertrīmentum

Antonyms

• (loss): captūra, faenus quaestus

References

• zamia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “zamia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.