Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Arrowwood \Ar"row*wood`\, n.
   A shrub ({Viburnum dentatum}) growing in damp woods and
   thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender
   shoots.

Source : WordNet®

Viburnum dentatum
     n : deciduous shrub of eastern North America having blue-black
         berries and tough pliant wood formerly used to make
         arrows [syn: {arrow wood}, {southern arrow wood}]