tuck|a|hoe

tuck|a|hoe
tuck|a|hoe «TUHK uh hoh», noun.
the edible food-storage body (sclerotium) of an underground fungus occurring on the roots of trees in the southern United States.
[American English, apparently < Algonkian (Powhatan) p'tûkweu it is round]

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