tuckahoe

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

Noun

 * 1) Any edible root of a plant of species, used by Native Americans of colonial-era Virginia.
 * 2)  A person, especially if poor and malnourished (or if implied to be), living east of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.
 * 3) * 1828 February 8, "Tusgarora" (pen name), in a letter to the editor of The American Farmer, page 372:
 * at least until you either get poor Tuckahoe out of his present hobble, in furnishing so many strong suspicions against the sincerity of his former professions of patriotism,
 * 1) The sclerotium of wood-decay fungi of species, used by Native Americans and the Chinese as food and as a herbal medicine.
 * 2) The flowering plant.
 * 1) * 1828 February 8, "Tusgarora" (pen name), in a letter to the editor of The American Farmer, page 372:
 * at least until you either get poor Tuckahoe out of his present hobble, in furnishing so many strong suspicions against the sincerity of his former professions of patriotism,
 * 1) The sclerotium of wood-decay fungi of species, used by Native Americans and the Chinese as food and as a herbal medicine.
 * 2) The flowering plant.
 * 1) The flowering plant.

Translations

 * Catawba: yap weye
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: