Marantas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 205 anagrams from letters in marantas (aaamnrst).
New Latin (Linnaeus), after Bartolomeo Maranta (1500-71), Italian physician and botanist
Most of the arrow-root, the fecula of the maranta arudinacea, sold by druggists, is a mixture of potatoe starch and arrow-root.
Ten of the mixtures contained scarcely a particle of the genuine maranta or West India arrowroot, for which they were sold.
maranta had studied in the private gardens formed by Pinelli at Naples.
Others of more or less value are species of arrowroot (maranta) and ginger (Zingiber).
The starch of this root, he asserts, is superior to that of the maranta.
Out of thirty-six more or less known species of the genus maranta, thirty at least are of American origin.