|  arrowroot 
  
 
 1. a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant
 • Hypernyms:
 starch, amylum
 2. white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch
 • Syn:
 American arrowroot, obedience plant, Maranta arundinaceae
 • Hypernyms:
 maranta
 3. canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained
 • Syn:
 achira, indian shot, Canna indica, Canna edulis
 • Hypernyms:
 canna
 
 
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