Tuckahoe Definition

tŭkə-hō
noun
Any of various roots and tubers, as of arum species, used as food by Algonquian peoples of Virginia.
Webster's New World
A brown, massive, underground, basidiomycetous fungus (Poria cocos) producing an edible, carbohydrate substance.
Webster's New World
1963, Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, The Old South: the founding of American civilization, page 213.
The poor Tuckahoe, however, when he purchased land in Washington County, or the Shenandoah, or in Rowan, seems to have left behind him, not only his worn-out fields and his tumbledown house, but his wasteful methods.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • Peltandra virginica
  • green arrow arum

Other Word Forms of Tuckahoe

Noun

Singular:
tuckahoe
Plural:
tuckahoes

Origin of Tuckahoe

  • From Powhatan tockawhoughe. The "person" sense implies that such a person was so poor as to be reduced to eating the root.

    From Wiktionary

  • Of Virginia Algonquian origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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