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Arrowroot

noun

A nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant.

White-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch. Synonyms: American arrowroot, Maranta arundinaceae, obedience plant.

Canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained. Synonyms: achira, Canna edulis, Canna indica, indian shot.

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... pounds 7 shillings O pence) is considerably the largest contribution ever made by Mangaia to the funds of our Society; the reason is, that I have this year obtained a better price for the arrowroot. I feel deeply thankful that our people have steadily persevered in their offerings to God, notwithstanding the accumulated misfortunes produced by three hurricanes in two years, and their ...

— Fruits of Toil in the London Missionary Society • Various

... cooking to destroy its acridity. The coconut-tree grows everywhere. In the canoes we saw abundance of sugarcane in pieces two feet in length and an inch in thickness, and the natives brought off to us bananas, breadfruit, mangoes, and prepared arrowroot. To a certain extent also the natives feed upon fish, judging from the nets and fishing-spears seen among them. The former, although frequently thirty or forty feet in length, did not exceed eighteen ...

— Narrative Of The Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By The Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During The Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries And Surveys In New Guinea, The Louisiade • John MacGillivray

Words linked to "Arrowroot" : amylum, starch, canna, maranta