arrowroot has definitions from the fields of botany,chemistry
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[ noun ] (botany) white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch

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maranta

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[ noun ] (chemistry) a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant

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starch

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[ noun ] (botany) canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained

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canna

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