Definitions for arrowroot

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arrowroot ar·row·root

Spelling: [ar-oh-root, -roo t]

IPA: /ˈær oʊˌrut, -ˌrʊt/

Arrowroot is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in arrowroot (aooorrrtw).

Definitions for arrowroot

noun

1. a tropical American plant, Maranta arundinacea, the rhizomes of which yield a nutritious starch.
2. the starch itself.
3. any of several other plants yielding a similar starch.
4. the starch of these plants, used in cooking as a binder or thickener.

Origin of arrowroot

First recorded in 1690-1700; so called from use of its root in treatment of wounds made by poisoned arrows

Examples for arrowroot

When it thickens, add the arrowroot, also mixed smoothly with milk.

The best hats are made of the stalks of the arrowroot plant.

Please send some fever medicine, by the bearer, and some arrowroot.

They can also be stewed, and served in the gravy when thickened with arrowroot.

The flour grated from the mass should be used the same as arrowroot or rice.'

arrowroot might be grown in any quantity if there were any demand for it.

She was taking him the arrowroot which I had ordered over-night.

Eggs, cakes, jelly in a basin, neat packets of arrowroot—it was no dream.

Add a tablespoonful of arrowroot and a little water to the yolk.

Amanda was standing at the 136 stove stirring his arrowroot gruel.