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starchroot

starchroot is the alternative form 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

Forms of starchroot

pluralstarchroots

Questions about starchroot

What is starchroot the alternative form of?
Starchroot is the alternative form of starch-root.

Words near starchroot in the dictionary

  1. starchlike
  2. starchly
  3. starchman
  4. starchmen
  5. starchness
  6. starchroot
  7. starchroots
  8. starchworks
  9. starchwort
  10. starchworts
  11. starchy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: starchroot (page history and authors); starch-root (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.

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