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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): 43242 Housing Units (2000): 18647 Land area (2000): 20.565391 sq. miles (53.264115 sq. km) Water area (2000): 1.065088 sq. miles (2.758566 sq. km) Total area (2000): 21.630479 sq. miles (56.022681 sq. km) FIPS code: 79560 Located within: ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Tuckahoe \Tuck"a*hoe\, n. [North American Indian, bread.] (Bot.) A curious vegetable production of the Southern Atlantic United States, growing under ground like a truffle and often attaining immense size. The real nature is unknown. Called also Indian ...
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 ...
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.