tuckahoe

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

From Powhatan tockawhoughe. The "person" sense implies that such a person was so poor as to be reduced to eating the root.

I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland. — Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Frederick Douglass
Dundee grazed at hand, and scattered upon the edge of the wood, beneath the little dogwood trees, lay like acorns his men, fraternizing with the "Tuckahoe" regiment. — The Long Roll, Mary Johnston
Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic, And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same. — Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

green arrow arum, Peltandra virginica

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