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Perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries
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tuckahoe
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Wikipedia
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Tuckahoe , also known as the '''Leach Mansion ''' or as the Mansion at Tuckahoe , is an historic home located at 1921 North East Indian River Drive in Jensen Beach , Martin County, Florida . The name was thought to be a Native American word for "welcome". ...
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Population (2000): 1741 Housing Units (2000): 1092 Land area (2000): 5.062229 sq. miles (13.111113 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.447929 sq. miles (1.160132 sq. km) Total area (2000): 5.510158 sq. miles (14.271245 sq. km) FIPS code: 75572 Located within: ...
WordNet
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n. perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries [syn: green arrow arum , Peltandra virginica ]
Wiktionary
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n. 1 Any edible root of a plant used by Native Americans of colonial-era Virginia. 2 # The wild potato, the arrow arum, (taxlink Peltandra virginica species noshow=1). 3 (context uncommon US Virginia dialect largely obsolete English) A person, especially ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
edible plant root of eastern U.S., 1610s, American English, from Powhatan (Algonquian) tockawhouge (compare Mohegan tquogh , Shawnee tukwhah ), perhaps related to Cree (Algonquian) pitikwaw "made round." From early 19c. a name applied in Virginia to those ...
Usage examples of tuckahoe.
How she acquired this knowledge, I know not, for Tuckahoe is the last place in the world where she would be apt to find facilities for learning.
Though Tuckahoe had but few of the good things of life, yet of such as it did possess grandmother got a full share, in the way of presents.
Releasing dear grandmamma from carrying me, did not make me altogether independent of her, when we happened to pass through portions of the somber woods which lay between Tuckahoe and Wye river.
They had – most of them – lived on my old master’s farm in Tuckahoe, and had felt the reign of Mr.