Arrowroot

(noun.) white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch.

(noun.) a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant.

巴顿整理

• An airing in the Hartfield carriage would have been the rack, and arrowroot from the Hartfield storeroom must have been poison. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• You may tell them that he takes mutton chops for dinner, and the best of arrowroot for supper. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

埃琳娜整理