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noun
The edible root of a plant of species Peltandra virginica, used by Native Americans of colonial-era Virginia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: wild potato, arrow arum
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person, especially if poor and malnourished (or if implied to be), living east of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, Virginia, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncommon, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The sclerotium of wood-decay fungi of species Wolfiporia extensa, used by Native Americans and the Chinese as food and as a herbal medicine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The flowering plant Orontium aquaticum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Alternative form of tuckahoe (“person living east of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: green arrow arum, Peltandra virginica
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: arrow arum
History
From Powhatan tockawhoughe. The "person" sense implies that such a person was so poor as to be reduced to eating the root.
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
