Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Puccoon \Puc*coon"\, 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 {Lithospermum} ({L. hirtum}, and {L. canescens});
   also, the pigment itself.