| hoary puccoon | (n) perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment, Syn. Lithospermum canescens, Indian paint |
| puccoon | (n) perennial plant of eastern North America having hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment, Syn. Lithospermum caroliniense |
| bloodroot | (n) 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, Syn. redroot, puccoon, tetterwort, Sanguinaria canadensis |
| Puccoon | n. [ From the American Indian name. ] (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 |