Word.ws English Dictionary

Guinea arrowroot

Guinea arrowroot noun: an ancient Caribbean and South American root crop, Goeppertia allouia (syn. Calathea allouia), with crisp, starchy tubers that taste somewhat like sweet corn.

Noun

Guinea arrowroot (uncountable)

  1. An ancient Caribbean and South American root crop, Goeppertia allouia (syn. Calathea allouia), with crisp, starchy tubers that taste somewhat like sweet corn.
    Synonyms:
    sweet corn root

Synonyms of Guinea arrowroot

  • sweet corn root

Questions about Guinea arrowroot

What does Guinea arrowroot mean?
Guinea arrowroot means an ancient Caribbean and South American root crop, Goeppertia allouia (syn. Calathea allouia), with crisp, starchy tubers that taste somewhat like sweet corn.
What part of speech is Guinea arrowroot?
Guinea arrowroot is a noun.

Words near Guinea arrowroot in the dictionary

  1. Guindon
  2. Guindons
  3. Guindulman
  4. Guindulungan
  5. guinea
  6. Guinea arrowroot
  7. Guinea corn
  8. Guinea deer
  9. guinea fowl
  10. guinea fowls
  11. guinea grains

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Guinea arrowroot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Guinea arrowroot.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/guinea_arrowroot. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.