Tuckahoe

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The edible root of a plant of species Peltandra virginica, used by Native Americans of colonial-era Virginia.

   “In June, July, and August, they feed upon the rootes of Tockwough berries, fish, and greene wheat.”

2. isim A person, especially if poor and malnourished (or if implied to be), living east of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.

   “[…] at least until you either get poor Tuckahoe out of his present hobble, in furnishing so many strong suspicions against the sincerity of his former professions of patriotism, […]”

3. isim The sclerotium of wood-decay fungi of species Wolfiporia extensa, used by Native Americans and the Chinese as food and as a herbal medicine.
4. isim The flowering plant Orontium aquaticum.
5. isim Alternative form of tuckahoe (“person living east of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains”).