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Definition of "puccoon" []

  • Any of several North American plants of the genus Lithospermum, having orange or yellow flowers and roots that yield a red dye. (noun)
  • Any of several plants, such as the bloodroot, whose roots yield a reddish dye. Also called gromwell. (noun)
  • The dye from any of these plants. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "puccoon" in a sentence
  • "A WildLands Seed Team collects and catalogs plants with names like blazing star, orange puccoon, squaw weed and eared false foxglove."
  • "Robert Byers replied to comment from hoary puccoon"
  • "There are a few Precambrian fossils that have been found, so the “explosion” in the Cambrian period has been exaggerated by Creationists to decieve people. hoary puccoon"
Words like "puccoon"
Canada puccoon
Carolina puccoon
fringed puccoon
golden puccoon
hairy puccoon
herb
herbaceous plant
hoary puccoon
narrow-leaved puccoon
narrowleaf puccoon
red puccoon