obedience plant

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   white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch

   SynonymsarrowrootAmerican arrowrootMaranta arundinaceae

   Broadermaranta

Questions about obedience plant

What does obedience plant mean?

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

What is another word for obedience plant?

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

obedience plant 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.