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Words with a similar base: American_arrowroot, arrowroot

'arrowroot'

[arrowroot.n.01] as in: a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant

'arrowroot'

[arrowroot.n.02] as in: white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch

'arrowroot'

[achira.n.01] as in: canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained

Origins

					arrowroot (English)
├── arrow (English)
│   └── earh (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
└── root (English)
    ├── root (Middle English (1100-1500))
    └── wroten (Middle English (1100-1500))
        └── wrotan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))