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Definition of Otaheite arrowroot
1. Noun. A starch obtained from the root of the pia.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Otaheite Arrowroot
Literary usage of Otaheite arrowroot
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1. Food: Its Adulterations, and the Methods for Their Detection by Arthur Hill Hassall (1876)
"... after the chief of which, Tahiti or Otaheite, it is usually designated. Tg n n.
TACCA arrowroot, called usually Tahiti or otaheite arrowroot. ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"otaheite arrowroot is the starch of Tacca (qv) pinnatifida. All these as well as
cornstarch—the starch of ..."
3. A Compendium of Food-microscopy with Sections on Drugs, Water, and Tobacco by Edwy Godwin Clayton, Arthur Hill Hassall (1909)
"... sometimes invisible ; is at the narrow or pointed extremity of each granule.
Fig. 49. (D) TACCA, TAHITI, OR otaheite arrowroot (Tacea pinnatifida, fam. ..."
4. Madagascar: An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Island and Its by Samuel Pasfield Oliver (1886)
"... and cultivated at Tamatave, as well as the so-called otaheite arrowroot (Tatca
pinnatifida), known in Mauritius as ..."
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