Definition of puccoon
English to English noun - perennial plant of eastern North America having hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment
source: WordNet 3.0 - 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
source: WordNet 3.0 - 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 (L. hirtum, and L. canescens); also, the pigment itself.
source: Webster 1913
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