tuckahoe
Also called Indian bread. the edible, underground sclerotium of the fungus Poria cocos, found on the roots of trees in the southern United States.
(usually initial capital letter) a Virginian, especially one inhabiting the lowland east of the Blue Ridge.
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How to use tuckahoe in a sentence
"I spent a few days at Colonel Randolph's, at tuckahoe, at whose house the usual hospitality of the country prevailed," he wrote.
Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774. | Philip Vickers FithianThe only massacre in tuckahoe ever committed by the savages took place in the summer of 1778.
History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley | U. J. (Uriah James) Jonestuckahoe, a flag-like swamp plant, with an enormous root system, was their favorite hot weather forage.
Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699 | Lyman CarrierI pray you to present me affectionately to your family and that of tuckahoe.
She was a woman of a hateful disposition, and treated the little stranger from tuckahoe with extreme harshness.
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