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.