canna edulis

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsachiraindian shotarrowrootCanna indica

   Broadercanna

Questions about canna edulis

What does canna edulis mean?

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

What is another word for canna edulis?

Close synonyms include achira, indian shot, arrowroot, Canna indica. 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 canna edulis a common word?

canna edulis 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.