achira

1. 1.

   canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained

   Synonymsindian shotarrowrootCanna indicaCanna edulis

   Broadercanna

Other forms of achira

plural

achiras·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about achira

What does achira mean?

achira means "canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained".

How many syllables are in achira?

achira has 3 syllables: a-chi-ra. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for achira?

Close synonyms include indian shot, arrowroot, Canna indica, Canna edulis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is achira a common word?

achira is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.