arrowroot : Idioms & Phrases


american arrowroot

  • noun white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch
    arrowroot; Maranta arundinaceae; obedience plant.
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arrowroot family

  • noun tropical perennial herbs with usually starchy rhizomes
    Marantaceae; family Marantaceae.
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florida arrowroot

  • noun small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba; roots and half-buried stems yield an arrowroot
    Zamia pumila; coontie; Seminole bread.
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indian arrowroot

  • noun perennial herb of East Indies to Polynesia and Australia; cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch
    Tacca leontopetaloides; pia; Tacca pinnatifida.
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otaheite arrowroot

  • noun a starch obtained from the root of the pia
    Otaheite arrowroot.
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otaheite arrowroot starch

  • noun a starch obtained from the root of the pia
    Otaheite arrowroot.
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