tuckahoe
pronunciation
How to pronounce tuckahoe in British English:
UK ['tʌkəhəʊ]
How to pronounce tuckahoe in American English:
US [ 'tʌkə,ho]
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- Noun:
- perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries
Word Origin
- tuckahoe (n.)
- 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 east of the Blue Ridge Mountains by the settlers west of them, who called themselves Cohees.
Example
- 1. Primary research on variations of microflora and enzyme activity in soil of tuckahoe cultivation field .
- 2. Beef 250 grams , lotus seed , yam , tuckahoe , big jujube is each 20 grams , small fennel each 30 grams , salt a few .
- 3. Kanuck , tuckahoe , congressman , cuff , I give them the same , I receive them the same .