tuckahoe

[ tuhk-uh-hoh ]

noun
  1. Also called Indian bread. the edible, underground sclerotium of the fungus Poria cocos, found on the roots of trees in the southern United States.

  1. (usually initial capital letter) a Virginian, especially one inhabiting the lowland east of the Blue Ridge.

Origin of tuckahoe

1
First recorded in 1605–15, Americanism; earlier applied to various roots and underground fungi, from Virginia Algonquian (English spelling) tockwhogh, tockawhoughe, taccaho “arrow arum root” (used for bread), derivative of Proto-Algonquian takwah- “to pound (it) fine, reduce (it) to flour” (unattested); compare Shawnee takhwa “bread”

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