tuckahoe

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.

[capitalized] An inhabitant of lower Virginia.

The poor land in lower Virginia.

Formerly, either of the plants the Virginia wake-robin, Peltandra undulata (P. Virginica, once Arum Virginicum), and the golden-club, Orontium aquaticum, both aquatics with deep fleshy and starchy rootstocks, which, rendered edible by cooking, were used by the Indians of Virginia as food.

A subterranean fungus, Pachyma Cocos, otherwise known as Indian bread, Indian head, and Indian loaf, found widely in the southern United States.

A curious vegetable production of the Southern Atlantic United States, growing under ground like a truffle and often attaining immense size. The real nature is unknown. Called also Indian bread, and Indian loaf.

Any edible root of a plant used by Native Americans of colonial-era Virginia

A person, especially if poor and malnourished or implied to be, living east of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.

The sclerotium of a fungus, Wolfiporia extensa, used as food and herbal medicine.