Search Result for "canna edulis":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained;
[syn: achira, indian shot, arrowroot, Canna indica, Canna edulis]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tous-les-mois \Tous`-les`-mois"\, n. [F., all the months, i. e., every month.] A kind of starch with very large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably Canna edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Canna edulis n 1: canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained [syn: achira, indian shot, arrowroot, Canna indica, Canna edulis]