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Indian bread

–noun
1. corn bread.
2. tuckahoe (def. 1).

Origin:
1645–55, Americanism

corn bread

–noun
1. Also called Indian bread. a bread made of cornmeal.
2. (esp. in northeastern U.S.) a sourdough rye bread, moist and heavy in texture.

Origin:
1740–50, Americanism

tuck⋅a⋅hoe

[tuhk-uh-hoh]
–noun
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. arrow arum.
3. (usually initial capital letter) a Virginian, esp. one inhabiting the lowland E of the Blue Ridge.

Origin:
1605–15, Americanism; earlier applied to various roots and underground fungi < Virginia Algonquian (E sp.) 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
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Indian bread  
n.  Any of various plants, such as the breadroot, having edible parts once used by certain Native American peoples for food.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

tuckahoe 
edible plant root, 1612, Amer.Eng., from Powhatan tockawhoughe (cf. Mohegan tquogh, Shawnee tukwhah), perhaps related to Cree pitikwaw "made round."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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