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 arrowroot
      n 1: a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot
           plant
      2: white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot
         starch [syn: American arrowroot, obedience plant, Maranta
         arundinaceae]
      3: canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which
         arrowroot starch is obtained [syn: achira, indian shot,
          Canna indica, Canna edulis]