a root or other underground plant part formerly eaten by North American Indians, in particular:
the starchy rhizome of an arum that grows chiefly in marshland (Peltandra virginica, family Araceae).the underground sclerotium of a bracket fungus (Poria cocos, class Hymenomycetes).
Origin:
early 17th century: from Virginia Algonquian tockawhoughe
tuckahoe in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of tuckahoe in the US English dictionary
