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starch-roots

starch-roots is the plural of starch-root.

Meaning of starch-root

Noun

starch-root (plural starch-roots)

  1. A plant native to woodlands of northern Europe, Arum maculatum.
    • The Arum maculatum is commonly called arrow-root or starch-root, but the vulgar names cows and calves, and lords and ladies, are also known, though not so frequently used.July 14 1853, T.B. Groves, “On Portland Arrow-Root”, in Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings, volume 13, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, page 60
    Synonyms:
    Jack-in-the-pulpit, cuckoopint, Adam and Eve, adder's meat, adder's root, arum, arum lily, bobbins, cows and bulls, cuckoo-plant

Questions about starch-roots

What is starch-roots the plural of?
Starch-roots is the plural of starch-root.

Words near starch-roots in the dictionary

  1. starch generator
  2. starch generators
  3. starch hyacinth
  4. starch hyacinths
  5. starch-root
  6. starch-roots
  7. starchable
  8. starchart
  9. starcharts
  10. starchboard
  11. starchboards

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