資料來源 : pyDict
可采紅色染料植物的總稱
資料來源 : 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.
資料來源 : 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}]