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noun - perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries
Any of various plants or plant parts used by certain Native American peoples as food, especially the edible root of certain arums or the sclerotium of certain fungi.
noun - the edible root of certain arums
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New York City suburb near Yonkers |
Talking of food, use tool to dig up edible tuber |
Plant of the arum family with arrow-shaped leaves and edible roots |
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Nov 19 2012 New York Times |
Nov 23 2009 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
Dec 14 2005 The Times - Cryptic |
Tuckahoe description |
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In Eastern Algonkian languages, the word tuckahoe was used for several edible plants, as well as an edible subterranean fungus.* Plants * Peltandra virginica, also called green arrow arum or tuckahoe, the rhizome was cooked and used as food by Native Americans * Orontium aquaticum, also called golden-club or tuckahoe, the seeds and rhizome were used as food by Native AmericansFungi * Wolfiporia extensa, also called Poria cocos, tuckahoe, or Indian bread; the sclerotium of a fungus used as food by Native Americans and by the Chinese as a medicinalTuckahoe may also refer to Tuckahoe-Cohee, an early colonial American cultural sub-group in Virginia and the Carolinas. * * The Native American word has been used as a place name: * * Buildings * Tuckahoe Plantation, boyhood home of Thomas Jefferson, in Virginia * Tuckahoe (Jensen Beach, Florida), or the Leach Mansion, in Jensen Beach, FloridaBodies of water * Tuckahoe Bay, in South Carolina * Tuckahoe Creek, in Maryland * Tuckahoe River (New Jersey)Places * Tuckahoe, |