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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