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starch-root

noun

starch-root

noun
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:

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