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Noun

1. green arrow arum, peltandra virginica, tuckahoe

perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tuckahoe

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noun
US
a type of edible fungus that grows as a large underground sclerotium

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Tuckahoe

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noun
1.  Obsolete
any of various roots and tubers, as of arum species, used as food by Algonquian peoples of Virginia
2. 
a brown, massive, underground, basidiomycetous fungus (Poria cocos) producing an edible, carbohydrate substance

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Tuckahoe

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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.

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