Color Names

Arrowroot

Soft, starchy white, like the powder from a Caribbean root.

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Arrowroot is a pale grey, close to beige.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and fairly saturated.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Arrowroot

Arrowroot

Arrowroot is a starch obtained from the rhizomes (rootstock) of several tropical plants, traditionally in particular Maranta arundinacea, but also Florida arrowroot, as well as tapioca from cassava, which is often labeled arrowroot. In Kenya, "arrowroot" refers to nduma, a plant known elsewhere as taro. Polynesian arrowroot or pia, Guyana arrowroot, Japanese arrowroot or kudzu, and purple arrowroot are used in similar ways.

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Arrowroot (novel)

Arrowroot is a novella written by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. It consists of six chapters: The Heavenly King; Iimoseyama; The Drum Hatsune; The Cry of the Fox; Kuzu; Shionoha. The narrator, who had been planning a to write a historical novel about the Nanboku-chō period, is drawn instead to the personal story of a mother's love which is revealed by his friend Tsumura who guides him in Yoshino in autumn.

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arrowroot

Noun

  1. Maranta arundinacea from the Marantaceae family, a large perennial herb native to the Caribbean area with green leaves about 15 centimeters long. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. Usually preceded by an attributive word: some other plant whose rhizomes are used to prepare a substance similar to arrowroot (sense 3), such as Zamia integrifolia (Florida arrowroot) or Pueraria montana var. lobata (Japanese arrowroot or kudzu).
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