Usage of "puccoon" | TermGallery

Portuguese

Catalan

Spanish

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

Perennial plant of eastern North America having hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment.

Lithospermum caroliniense

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Usage of puccoon in English

To-day Mrs. Bassett rejoiced in the discovery of the season's first puccoon, showing its orange-yellow cluster on a sandy slope. 
 A Hoosier Chronicle 

The blood-root, sanguinaria, or puccoon, as it is termed by some of the native tribes, is worthy of attention from the root to the flower. 
 The Backwoods of Canada / Being Letters from the Wife of an Emig... 

Frequent collocations

first puccoon

Translations for puccoon

Portuguese

sanguinaria

Catalan

sanguinària del canadà

Spanish

sanguinaria canadensis

Puccoon through the time

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Meanings of puccoon in English