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Puccoon   Listen
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Puccoon  n.  (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 (Lithospermum hirtum, and Lithospermum canescens); also, the pigment itself.






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"Puccoon" Quotes from Famous Books



... the steep mountain side, through great thickets of glossy-leaved laurel, by banks of fragrant honeysuckle, by beds of millions of sweet-breathing, velvety pansies, nestling under huge shadowy rocks, by acres of white puccoon flowers, each as lovely as the lily that grows by cool Siloam's shady rill—all scattered there with Nature's reckless profusion, where no eye saw them from year to year save those of the infrequent hunter, those of the thousands of ...
— The Red Acorn • John McElroy



Words linked to "Puccoon" :   Lithospermum, genus Lithospermum, tetterwort, bloodroot, Lithospermum caroliniense, Sanguinaria, redroot, Sanguinaria canadensis, herbaceous plant, genus Sanguinaria, hoary puccoon



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