maranta arundinaceae

1. 1.

   white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch

   SynonymsarrowrootAmerican arrowrootobedience plant

   Broadermaranta

Questions about maranta arundinaceae

What does maranta arundinaceae mean?

maranta arundinaceae means "white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch".

What is another word for maranta arundinaceae?

Close synonyms include arrowroot, American arrowroot, obedience plant. 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 maranta arundinaceae a common word?

maranta arundinaceae 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.