Crossword clues for arrowroot
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maranta \Ma*ran"ta\, prop. n. [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of endogenous plants found in tropical America, and some species also in India. They have tuberous roots containing a large amount of starch, and from one species ( Maranta arundinacea, the American arrowroot or obedience plant) arrowroot ( arrowroot starch) is obtained. Many kinds are cultivated for ornament.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A large perennial herb ((taxlink Maranta arundinacea species noshow=1) - family ''(taxlink Marantaceae family noshow=1)'') native to the Caribbean area. It has large green leaves about 15 centimeters long with white stripes. 2 (context uncountable English) A starchy substance obtained from the roots of the arrowroot plant used as a thickener.
WordNet
n. a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant
white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch [syn: American arrowroot, obedience plant, Maranta arundinaceae]
canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained [syn: achira, indian shot, Canna indica, Canna edulis]
Wikipedia
Arrowroot is a starch obtained from the rhizomes (rootstock) of several tropical plants, traditionally Maranta arundinacea, but also Florida arrowroot from Zamia integrifolia, and tapioca from cassava (Manihot esculenta), which is often labelled as arrowroot. Japanese arrowroot, Pueraria lobata, also called kuzu, is used in similar ways.
Arrowroot refers to an edible starch obtained from several tropical plants, these include:
- Maranta arundinacea, called arrowroot, the traditional source of the starch
- Cassava (Manihot esculenta), produces tapioca, also called Brazilian arrowroot
- Florida arrowroot was a commercial starch derived from Zamia pumila, harvested from the wild in Florida.
Other plants called arrowroot include:
- Achillea millefolium, commonly known as yarrow
- Colocasia esculenta, sometimes called arrowroot in East Africa
- Curcuma angustifolia, a plant with a starchy root cultivated in India
- Pueraria lobata, Japanese arrowroot, also called kudzu
- Queensland arrowroot, a cultivar belonging to the Canna Agriculture Group
- Thalia geniculata
- Tacca leontopetaloides, known among other names as the Polynesian arrowroot
Usage examples of "arrowroot".
He made a pot of tea, each action following the next in the same, methodical routine, and took a cup, with an arrowroot biscuit, in to Elsa, who needed to eat and drink on waking, because of her diabetes.
Here, on the floodplains and in the seasonal swamps, the well-watered, silty soil supported many annuals, herbs, legumes, vines, lilies, and arrowroots.
Pia maohi, or wild arrowroot, indigenous to all the volcanic islands of the Pacific, was here, valuable for making the native puddings of which the white men soon grew fond.
Then with regard to nourishment, he would be inclined already to shove in a leetle stimulant, a thimbleful perhaps four times a day with food--not without--mixed with an egg, with arrowroot, with custard.
Miss Jessie up a basin of delicately-made arrowroot, and stood over her like a dragoon until the last spoonful was finished: then she disappeared.
Portland Arrowroot was formerly obtained from Arum maculatum, but it was acrid and not very satisfactory.
He was looking north to Quidnet across the ash-black remains of the arrowroot and scrub oak thickets Angelica Brand's people had cleared, over the water to the low barrier beach that separated the pond from the ocean.
The true starch of the Mandioca is known to commerce as Brazilian arrowroot, and this, after heating on hot plates and stirring with an iron rod, becomes tapioca.
Brazilian Arrowroot, or Tapioca Meal, is obtained from Manihot utilissima (bitter) and M.
Chinese Arrowroot is said to be from the tubers of Nelumbium speciosum.
This starch of the root, after repeated washing, makes a kind of arrowroot, formerly much prepared in the Isle of Portland, and sold as an article of food under the name of Portland Sago, or Portland arrowroot, but now obsolete.
On tables and benches and sturdy metal racks stand hundreds of terra-cotta pots and plastic trays in which she cultivates tarragon and thyme, angelica and arrowroot, chervil and cardamom and coriander and chicory, spearmint and sweet cicely, ginseng, hyssop, balm and basil, marjoram and mint and mullein, dill, fennel, rosemary, chamomile, tansy.