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]