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tuckahoe

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tuck·a·hoe  (tk-h)
n.
1. 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.
2. See arrow arum.
[Of Virginia Algonquian origin.]
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Noun1.tuckahoetuckahoe - perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries
green arrow arum, Peltandra virginica
arrow arum - an aquatic plant of the genus Peltandra; North America


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