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Arrowroot is to an edible starch obtained from several tropical plants.
Arrowroot may also refer to:
Plants
edit- Maranta arundinacea, called arrowroot, the traditional source of the starch
- Queensland arrowroot, a cultivar of M. arundinacea belonging to the Canna Agriculture Group
- Cassava (Manihot esculenta), produces tapioca, also called Brazilian arrowroot
- Florida arrowroot, a commercial starch derived from Zamia pumila, harvested from the wild in Florida
- 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
- Kudzu (Pueraria lobata), Japanese arrowroot
- Thalia geniculata, a plant species widespread across tropical Africa and much of the Americas
- Tacca leontopetaloides, known among other names as the Polynesian arrowroot
Other uses
edit- Arrowroot (novel) (Yoshino kuzu), a 1931 novel by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
- Arrowroot, son of Arrowshirt, a fictional character in a 1969 parody novel Bored of the Rings
See also
edit- Arrowhead, Sagittaria species that can be used as a root vegetable
- Arrowweed, Pluchea sericea, which has edible roots
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