Akademik

Indian arrowroot

noun

perennial herb of East Indies to Polynesia and Australia; cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch

• Syn: ↑pia, ↑Tacca leontopetaloides, ↑Tacca pinnatifida

• Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant

• Member Holonyms: ↑Tacca, ↑genus Tacca

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noun

Usage: usually capitalized I

Etymology: indian (II) 2

1.

a. : a tropical American arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea)

b. : starch from this arrowroot — called also West Indian arrowroot

2. [indian (II) 1]

a. : a stemless perennial herb (Tacca leontopetaloides) widely cultivated in the tropics for its starchy tuberous rootstock

b. : starch from this plant — called also East Indian arrowroot

Useful english dictionary. 2012.