Crossword-Solution: ARROWROOT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Arrowroot | n. | A west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. M. arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows. |
| Arrowroot | n. | A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of Maranta arundinacea, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids; also, a similar starch obtained from other plants, as various species of Maranta and Curcuma. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “ARROWROOT”
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| nutritious starch obtained from the root of a W Indian plant | 1 answer |
| Tropical American starch plant | 1 answer |
| A starch yielding plant | 1 answer |
| Baby cookies | 1 answer |
| Thickening starch once used by American Indians to heal wounds | 1 answer |
| Starchy thickener | 1 answer |
| Starchy product | 1 answer |
| Cookie flavor | 1 answer |
| Cooky flavor | 1 answer |
| FARINACEOUS substance from tropical plant roots | 1 answer |
| MARANTA arundinacea, product of | 1 answer |
| Nutritious starch from a West Indian plant | 1 answer |
| Starch used as a binder or thickener | 1 answer |
| Food-thickening agent | 2 answers |
| CURCUMA product | 2 answers |
| Starch-yielding plant | 4 answers |
| CASSAVA roots product | 4 answers |
| Food thickener | 5 answers |
| sauce thickener | 6 answers |
| arum | 7 answers |
| COMBINING FORMS STARCH | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with ARROWROOT (5)
Emma, on reaching home, called the housekeeper directly, to an examination of her stores; and some arrowroot of very superior quality was speedily despatched to Miss Bates with a most friendly note.
And sympathetic gaolers would remark, “It’s very true, He ain’t been brought up common, like the likes of me and you.” So they took him into hospital, and gave him mutton chops, And chocolate, and arrowroot, and buns, and malt and hops.
There is, likewise, a beautiful orchidaceous plant, which is very common throughout the patinas on the mountains, and which produces the very finest quality of arrowroot.
Adrienne found that by using the wine which still remained, as well as some sugar and arrowroot, her grandmother could be made comfortable for just ten sous a day.
She had by that time read aloud by bedsides a great many chapters in the Bible, had given a good many tracts, and bestowed as much arrowroot, barley-water, and beef-tea as she could possibly encompass without domestic disaster.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, WP, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1972–2007).