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Definition of Indian arrowroot

1. Noun. Perennial herb of East Indies to Polynesia and Australia; cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indian Arrowroot

Literary usage of Indian arrowroot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger (1889)
"Genuine East-Indian arrowroot shows in its grains a very excentric structure (Fig. ... The West-Indian arrowroot, also called in short Arrowroot, ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"East Indian arrowroot is obtained from the. root-stocks of several species of the genus Curcuma (nat. ord. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"2, root«. starch yielded by two or three species of Maranta, the chief of which is M. arundinacea ; and when genuine or West Indian arrowroot is spoken of, ..."

4. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1873)
"WEST Indian arrowroot. ... furnishes most of the genuine West Indian arrowroot, although other species, such as M. nubilis, ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1877)
"It is the root of Maranta arundinacea, and was called Indian arrowroot from the fact of its curing and expelling the poison that the Indians put upon their ..."

6. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"... and as the starch obtained therefrom is occasionally exported, it might with equal propriety be called East Indian arrowroot, hence, to avoid confusion, ..."

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