Word Meanings - ARROWROOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. M. arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows.

• Plantless
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• Plantlet
  A little plant.
• Countries
  of Country
• Planting
  of Plant
• Plantocracy
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• Cultivatable
  Cultivable.
• Plantable
  Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.
• Plantule
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• Cultivated
  of Cultivate
• Plantage
  A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted.
• Cultivating
  of Cultivate
• Plantain
  A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.
• Poisoned
  of Poison
• Cultivate
  To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.
• Poisoning
  of Poison
• Cultivation
  The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.

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