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.

Source : WordNet®

puccoon
     n 1: perennial plant of eastern North America having hairy
          foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment [syn: {Lithospermum
          caroliniense}]
     2: perennial woodland native of North America having a red root
        and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leave and white
        flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties;
        rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant [syn: {bloodroot},
         {redroot}, {tetterwort}, {Sanguinaria canadensis}]