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puccoon
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun puccoon has 2 senses
- puccoon(n = noun.plant) lithospermum caroliniense - perennial plant of eastern North America having hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment; Array is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
- puccoon(n = noun.plant) bloodroot, redroot, sanguinaria canadensis, tetterwort - perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant; Array is a member of genus sanguinaria, sanguinaria
is a member of genus lithospermum, lithospermum
is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
CIDE DICTIONARY
puccoon, n. [From the American Indian name.].
Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum (Lithospermum hirtum , and Lithospermum canescens ); also, the pigment itself. [1913 Webster]
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