starch-root
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starch-root
noun starch-roots
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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.
Similar: Jack-in-the-pulpit, cuckoopint, Adam and Eve, adder's meat, adder's root, arum, arum lily, bobbins, cows and bulls, cuckoo-plant, devils and angels, friar's cowl
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