Arrowroot (disambiguation)

Arrowroot is to an edible starch obtained from several tropical plants.

Arrowroot may also refer to:

Plants

 * Maranta arundinacea, called arrowroot, the traditional source of the starch
 * Queensland arrowroot, a cultivar of M. arundinacea belonging to the Canna Agriculture Group
 * Cassava (Manihot esculenta), produces tapioca, also called Brazilian arrowroot
 * Florida arrowroot, a commercial starch derived from Zamia pumila, harvested from the wild in Florida
 * Achillea millefolium, commonly known as yarrow
 * Colocasia esculenta, sometimes called arrowroot in East Africa
 * Curcuma angustifolia, a plant with a starchy root cultivated in India
 * Kudzu (Pueraria lobata), Japanese arrowroot
 * Thalia geniculata, a plant species widespread across tropical Africa and much of the Americas
 * Tacca leontopetaloides, known among other names as the Polynesian arrowroot

Other uses

 * Arrowroot (novel) (Yoshino kuzu), a 1931 novel by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
 * Arrowroot, son of Arrowshirt, a fictional character in a 1969 parody novel Bored of the Rings