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Definition: Arrowroot |
ArrowrootNoun1. A nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant. 2. White-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch. 3. Canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: ArrowrootSynonyms: achira (n), indian shot (n), obedience plant (n). (additional references) |
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| Maranta arundinacea L. |
Arrowroot (or odidience plant) is a large perennial herb of genus Maranta, found in rain forest habitats. Arrowroot is also the name for the easy-to-digest starch from the rhizomes (rootstock) of West Indian arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea). The plant is naturalized in Florida, but it is chiefly cultivated in the West Indies (Jamaica and St. Vincent), Australia, Southeast Asia, and South Africa. Because of this Napoleon supposedly said the real reason for the British love of arrowroot was to support their colonies.The rootstock is successively grated, washed and sieved until only the pure low-protein mucilaginous starch remains. The name may come from the native Caribbean Arawak people's aru-aru (meal of meals) for whom the plant is a staple. Most starch sold today as arrowroot is actually cassava flour which does not have the same gelling and nutritional properties. In the early days of carbonless forms, arrowroot, because of its fine grain size, was a widely used ingredient. After an economical way of centrifugally separating wheat flour was devised, arrowroot lost its role in papermaking. Archaeological studies in the Americas show evidence of arrowroot cultivation as early as 7,000 years ago.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Arrowroot."
Crosswords: Arrowroot |
| English words defined with "arrowroot": achira, American arrowroot ♦ Canna edulis, Canna indica, coontie ♦ Florida arrowroot ♦ Indian arrowroot, indian shot ♦ Maranta arundinaceae ♦ obedience plant ♦ pia ♦ Scitamineous, Seminole bread ♦ Tacca leontopetaloides, Tacca pinnatifida, Tous-les-mois ♦ Zamia pumila. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "arrowroot": Juajua ♦ roots and tubers production. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Arrowroot" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (arrowroot), German (arrowroot). |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | An airing in the Hartfield carriage would have been the rack, and arrowroot from the Hartfield storeroom must have been poison. |
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Health | Use corn, rice, soy, arrowroot, tapioca, and potato flours or a mixture instead of wheat flours in recipes. (references) | |
Political Economy | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | The country's population is approximately 113,000, with a market-based economy that relies heavily on its supply of natural resources, including agricultural products such as bananas and arrowroot, as well as on the tourist industry. (references) |
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| "Arrowroot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Arrowroot" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "arrowroot": american arrowroot ♦ arrowroot family ♦ arrowroot starch ♦ Florida arrowroot ♦ indian arrowroot ♦ otaheite arrowroot. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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agriculture arrowroot | 214 |
arrowroot | 68 |
arrowroot importer | 57 |
arrowroot company list | 55 |
arrowroot seller | 13 |
arrowroot buyer wholesale | 13 |
arrowroot cookie | 6 |
arrowroot powder | 6 |
arrowroot biscuit | 3 |
arrowroot flour | 3 |
arrowroot wholesale | 2 |
arrowroot carbohydrate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "arrowroot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | araroet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الاروروت نبات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тропическо растение. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | arrowroot fra Toloman (Queensland arrowroot, tous-les-mois arrowroot, Tulema arrowroot, West Indian arrowroot), arrowroot fra Tahiti (Otaheite arrowroot, tacca, Tahiti arrowroot), arrowroot fra Indien (East India arrowroot, East Indian arrowroot), arrowroot fra Antillerne (Queensland arrowroot, tous-les-mois arrowroot, Tulema arrowroot, West Indian arrowroot), tacca (Otaheite arrowroot, tacca, Tahiti arrowroot), joedeskaeg (Otaheite arrowroot, tacca, Tahiti arrowroot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | arrowroot, pýlwortel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | aroruto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nuolijuuri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | arrowroot, marante, herbe la flèche. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Arrowroot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μαράντα, φυτό των τροπικών από το οποίο παράγεται αλεύρι, αραρούτι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyílgyökér. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | specie di maranta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 葛鬱金 , 葛 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くずう"", くず (scrap, waste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 칡. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stark Injynagh, lus y stark. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arrowrootay araruta. (various references) аррорут. (various references) arrurruz (curry). (various references) arrowrot. (various references) ararot nişastası, ararot. (various references) cây dong bột ho ng tinh, bột dong. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | MARANTA ARUNDINACEA. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "arrowroot": arrowroots. (additional references) | |
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"Arrowroot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arrowcroft. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "arrowroot" (pronounced a"rōruw't) |
| 3 | -r uw' t | bitterroot, breadfruit, grapefruit, grassroot. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-o-o-r-r-r-t-w" | |
-3 letters: orator. | |
-4 letters: arrow, rotor. | |
-5 letters: orra, rato, roar, root, rota, roto, taro, tora, toro, torr, trow, wart, wort. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-o-o-r-r-r-t-w" | |
+1 letter: arrowroots. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 72 72 6F 77 72 6F 6F 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110010 01110010 01101111 01110111 01110010 01101111 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A r r o w r o o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0072 0072 006F 0077 0072 006F 006F 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)358484818984818186 |
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