/tuk"euh hoh'/ , n.
1. Also called Indian bread . the edible, underground sclerotium of the fungus Poria cocos, found on the roots of trees in the southern United States.
2. See arrow arum .
3. ( usually cap. ) a Virginian, esp. one inhabiting the lowland E of the Blue Ridge.
[ 1605-15, Amer.; earlier applied to various roots and underground fungi tockwhogh, tockawhoughe, taccaho arrow arum root (used for bread), deriv. of Proto-Algonquian * takwah- to pound (it) fine, reduce (it) to flour; cf. Shawnee takhwa bread ]