tuckahoe

== English == === Alternative forms === tockwough [17th c.] === Etymology === From Powhatan tockawhoughe. The "person" sense implies that such a person was so poor as to be reduced to eating the root. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtʌkəhəʊ/ === Noun === tuckahoe (countable and uncountable, plural tuckahoes) The edible root of a plant of species Peltandra virginica, used by Native Americans of colonial-era Virginia. Synonyms: wild potato, arrow arum (uncommon, US, Virginia dialect, chiefly obsolete) A person, especially if poor and malnourished (or if implied to be), living east of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Coordinate term: Cohee 1828 February 8, "Tusgarora" (pen name), in a letter to the editor of The American Farmer, page 372: […] at least until you either get poor Tuckahoe out of his present hobble, in furnishing so many strong suspicions against the sincerity of his former professions of patriotism, […] The sclerotium of wood-decay fungi of species Wolfiporia extensa, used by Native Americans and the Chinese as food and as a herbal medicine. The flowering plant Orontium aquaticum. ==== Derived terms ==== Tuckahoe Group ==== Translations ====