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Puccoon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant, a species of Sanguinaria; the blood-root.

Puccoon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.