arrowroot   (TTS Sound)

The noun arrowroot has 3 senses

• arrowroot -- (a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant)


• arrowroot, American arrowroot, obedience plant, Maranta arundinaceae -- (white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch)


• achira, indian shot, arrowroot, Canna indica, Canna edulis -- (canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained)