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nouncanna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained
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nounwhite-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starchtype of:
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nouna nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant
Definition that contains arrowroot
- pia perennial herb of East Indies to Polynesia and Australia; cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch
- arrowroot white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch
- arrowroot a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant
- arrowroot canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained
- indian shot canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained
- seminole bread small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba; roots and half-buried stems yield an arrowroot
- canna indica canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained
- maranta arundinaceae white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch
- tacca leontopetaloides perennial herb of East Indies to Polynesia and Australia; cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch
- achira canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained