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What is a tuckahoe?

What is a tuckahoe? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any edible root of a plant used by Native Americans of colonial-era Virginia.
    1. The wild potato, the arrow arum, Peltandra virginica.
  2. (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.
  3. The sclerotium of the wood-decay fungus Wolfiporia extensa, used by Native Americans and the Chinese as food and as a herbal medicine.
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Today, wild rice and edible tuckahoe plants blanket the marshland along the banks.
The Tuckahoe, New York-based company has reduced the sodium and calorie contents of its best selling snacks.
China tops the world in producing straw mushrooms, tuckahoe, lentinus adodes, agaric, white jelly fungus and hedgehog fungus, Liu added.
Before opening his own business, he spent 28 years as the tax assessor for the Town of Eastchester, the Village of Tuckahoe and the Town of Mount Pleasant.
Cailin MacLean, 11, a sixth-grader at Tuckahoe Middle School in Richmond, Virginia, says a no-touching rule might be a good thing for some students.
The ponderous beast had spent the summer eating tuckahoe roots, the autumn eating acorns and nuts, and was now as heavy as two stout men.

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