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Tuckahoe

//ˈtʌkəhəʊ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The edible root of a plant of species Peltandra virginica, used by Native Americans of colonial-era Virginia. countable, uncountable

    "In June, July, and August, they feed upon the rootes of Tockwough berries, fish, and greene wheat."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of tuckahoe (“person living east of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains”). alt-of, alternative
  3. 3
    perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries wordnet
  4. 4
    A person, especially if poor and malnourished (or if implied to be), living east of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. US, Virginia, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncommon, uncountable

    "[…] 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, […]"

  5. 5
    The sclerotium of wood-decay fungi of species Wolfiporia extensa, used by Native Americans and the Chinese as food and as a herbal medicine. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    The flowering plant Orontium aquaticum. countable, uncountable

Etymology

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

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