Definitionn. a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant
Last update: October 22, 2015
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The cultivated trees and plants of importance are, besides rubber, the manioc or cassada, the orange tree, lime, cacao, coffee, pineapple (which now runs wild over the whole of Liberia), sour sop, ginger, papaw, alligator apple, avocado pear, okro, cotton (Gossypium peruvianum - the kidney cotton), indigo, sweet potato, capsicum (chillie), bread-fruit, arrowroot (Maranta), banana, yam, "coco"-yam (Colocasia antiquorum, var. [Please select]
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Silver ornaments should be kept in fine arrowroot, and completely covered with it. [Please select]
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Nurse makes beautiful starch--like water-arrowroot when you're ill--in a minute or two.' [Please select]
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Please send some fever medicine, by the bearer, and some arrowroot. [Please select]
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I told the doctor so this morning, but he said I had better wait another twelve hours, and then I might have two or three spoonsful of arrowroot, but the less the better. [Please select]
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At last with a groan he spat the seemingly undiminished bonbon on to the floor, and turned as white and trembling as an arrowroot blanc-mange. [Please select]
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