Definition of Puccoon

Noun: puccoon pu'koon

Perennial plant of eastern North America having hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment
- Lithospermum caroliniense
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
- bloodroot, redroot, tetterwort, Sanguinaria canadensis