puccoon Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun perennial plant of eastern North America having hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment
    Lithospermum caroliniense.
  2. noun 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
    Sanguinaria canadensis; bloodroot; tetterwort; redroot.

WordNet

Puc*coon" noun
Etymology
From the American Indian name.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) 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.

Webster 1913