Hypertext Webster Gateway: "arrowroot"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Arrowroot \Ar"row*root`\, n.
1. (Bot.) 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.
2. A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of
{Maranta arundinacea}, and used as food, esp. for children
an invalids; also, a similar starch obtained from other
plants, as various species of {Maranta} and {Curcuma}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
arrowroot
n 1: a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot
plant
2: white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot
starch [syn: {American arrowroot}, {obedience plant}, {Maranta
arundinaceae}]
3: canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which
arrowroot starch is obtained [syn: {achira}, {indian shot},
{Canna indica}, {Canna edulis}]
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