tuckahoe
IPA: tˈʌkʌhoʊ
noun
- Any edible root of a plant of species Peltandra virginica, used by Native Americans of colonial-era Virginia.
- (uncommon, US, Virginia dialect, largely obsolete) A person, especially if poor and malnourished (or if implied to be), living east of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.
- The sclerotium of wood-decay fungi of species Wolfiporia extensa, used by Native Americans and the Chinese as food and as a herbal medicine.
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Examples of "tuckahoe" in Sentences
- Use of tuckahoe by local tribes.
- Use of the tuckahoe by local tribes.
- The Tuckahoe Cherokee are very real, and are not past tense.
- This I Believe Gift Shop salamander john - tuckahoe, New York
- Tuckahoe is a village within the town of Eastchester, however.
- Ned said, All that plume grass and tuckahoe and mountain holly.
- Tuckahoe was the Native American name for an edible water plant.
- Tuckahoe was the Native American name for and edible water plant.
- Tuckahoe is the only remaining intact plantation of illiam's sons.
- Tuckahoe may refer to Tuckahoe Cohee, an early American cultural sub group.
- It's responsible in part for the old Tuckahoe Cohee split within the South.
- A long transmitter line was built before Tuckahoe Bay was preserved under law.
- Later on, the women spread a great breakfast of fish and turkey and venison, maize bread, tuckahoe and pohickory.
- Let my fathers tarry and my women shall bring them chinquepin cakes and tuckahoe, pohickory and succotash, and my young men -- "
- Foods to strengthen the digestive system include spleen-boosting foods such as lotus seeds, fu ling (tuckahoe), yam, jujubes and dang shen (radix codonopsitis).
- Also, an edible root called _tockwough_ (tuckahoe, a tuberous plant growing in fresh marshes, with a root similar to that of a potato) was gathered, and after the Indian fashion, pounded into a meal from which bread was made.
- Although Peter must have known as well as Ambrose that the latter, because of his position in the car, would be the first to see the electrical towers of the power plant at V____, the halfway point of their trip, he leaned forward and slightly toward the center of the car and pretended to be looking for them through the flat pinewoods and tuckahoe creeks along the highway.