coontien.
/ˈkʊnti/ The name in U.S. of a species of cycad ( Zamia integrifolia), found in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; also of the variety of arrowroot obtained from its stem. Also attributive.
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1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina (1792) 239 A very agreeable, cooling sort of jelly, which they call conte.
a1816 B. Hawkins Sketch Creek Country 1798 & 1799 in Coll. Georgia Hist. Soc. (1848) III. 21 This [China] briar is called Coonte.
1819 Pennsylvania Gaz. 22 June 2/3 [The Seminoles] use a root called coonty, as a substitute [for corn].
1823 G. A. McCall Lett. from Frontiers (1868) 60 To-day I found him digging coonta-root.
1837 J. L. Williams Territory of Florida 33 The inhabitants [live] principally on fish, turtle, and coonti; the last they bring from the main [land].
1852 F. R. Goulding Young Marooners xxvi. 173 Harold discovered a fine patch of Coontah or arrowroot from which a beautiful flour can be manufactured.
1879 C. Pickering Chron. Hist. Plants 761 The coontie is a low palmetto-like plant, its trunk yielding the ..white bread.
1883 Chapman Flora South. U.S. (ed. 2) 437.
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