bloodroot, puccoon, redroot, tetterwort, Sanguinaria canadensis
(noun) 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
puccoon, Lithospermum caroliniense
(noun) perennial plant of eastern North America having hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment
Source: WordNet® 3.1
puccoon (countable and uncountable, plural puccoons)
(countable, botany) Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, such as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum, Lithospermum hirtum and Lithospermum canescens.
(uncountable) The red pigment (dye) obtained from these plants.
Source: Wiktionary
Puc*coon", n. Etym: [From the American Indian name.] (Bot.)
Definition: 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 (L. hirtum, and L. canescens); also, the pigment itself.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 June 2025
(noun) a member of a learned society; “he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
