Puccoon - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: puccoonBloodroot
A plant Sanguinaria Canadensis with a red root and red sap and bearing a pretty white flower in early spring called also puccoon redroot bloodwort tetterwort turmeric and Indian paint It has acrid emetic properties and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant See Sanguinaria...
Puccoon
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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