Usually means: Starchy powder from tropical tubers.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word arrowroot:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. arrowroot: Merriam-Webster
  2. arrowroot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. arrowroot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. arrowroot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. arrowroot: Vocabulary.com
  6. Arrowroot, arrowroot: Wordnik
  7. arrowroot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. arrowroot: Wiktionary
  9. arrowroot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. arrowroot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. arrowroot: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. arrowroot: Dictionary.com
  13. Arrowroot (disambiguation), Arrowroot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Arrowroot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. arrowroot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. arrowroot: Rhymezone
  17. Arrowroot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. arrowroot: FreeDictionary.org
  19. arrowroot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. arrowroot: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. arrowroot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  22. arrowroot: Merriam-Webster

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. arrowroot: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Arrowroot: Health & Beauty Glossary
  3. arrowroot: Cook's Thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. arrowroot: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. arrowroot: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Arrowroot: Beauty & Health Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, uncountable) Maranta arundinacea from the Marantaceae family, a large perennial herb native to the Caribbean area with green leaves about 15 centimeters long.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) Usually preceded by an attributive word: some other plant whose rhizomes are used to prepare a substance similar to arrowroot (sense 3), such as Zamia integrifolia (Florida arrowroot) or Pueraria montana var. lobata (Japanese arrowroot or kudzu).
noun:  (uncountable) A starchy substance obtained from the rhizomes of an arrowroot plant used as a thickener.

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