1. Perennial plant of eastern North America having hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment
   "Native Americans traditionally used puccoon roots to make dye";
   - Lithospermum caroliniense
    
2. 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
   "Native Americans used puccoon for its medicinal properties";
   - bloodroot, redroot, tetterwort, Sanguinaria canadensis

Derived forms: puccoons

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant

Part of: genus Lithospermum, genus Sanguinaria, Lithospermum, Sanguinaria

Encyclopedia: Puccoon