HyperDic: obedience_plant

English > 1 sense of the expression obedience plant:
NOUNplantobedience plant, arrowroot, American arrowroot, Maranta arundinaceaewhite-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch
English > obedience plant: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningwhite-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch.
Synonymsarrowroot, American arrowroot, Maranta arundinaceae
BroadermarantaAny of numerous herbs of the genus Maranta having tuberous starchy roots and large sheathing leaves
Spanishmaranta arundinaceae, maranta arundinacea
Catalanmaranta arundinaceae

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