tikor

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A starch manufactured from the tubers of an East Indian plant, Curcuma angustifolia, forming the chief arrowroot of India. See Curcuma, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A starch or arrow-root made from the tubes of an East Indian zinziberaceous plant (Curcuma angustifolia); also, the plant itself.