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arrowroot

Length / number of characters: 9
Number of words: 1

  • canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained
  • white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch
  • a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant
  • A west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. M. arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows
  • A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of Maranta arundinacea, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids

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