Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun american_arrowroot

1 sense of american arrowroot

Sense 1
arrowroot, American arrowroot, obedience plant, Maranta arundinaceae -- (white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch)
       => maranta -- (any of numerous herbs of the genus Maranta having tuberous starchy roots and large sheathing leaves)