arrowroot : Idioms & Phrases
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american arrowroot
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noun white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch
arrowroot; Maranta arundinaceae; obedience plant.
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arrowroot family
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noun tropical perennial herbs with usually starchy rhizomes
Marantaceae; family Marantaceae.
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florida arrowroot
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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
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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
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noun a starch obtained from the root of the pia
Otaheite arrowroot.
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otaheite arrowroot starch
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noun a starch obtained from the root of the pia
Otaheite arrowroot.