different between bloodroot vs puccoon

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

blood +? root

Noun

bloodroot (usually uncountable, plural bloodroots)

1. A North American plant, Sanguinaria canadensis, of the poppy family, which has a red root and sap and a single white flower in early spring.

Synonyms

• (Sanguinaria canadensis): bloodwort, red puccoon root, pauson, tetterwort

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• paucon, pauson
• pocones [17th c.]

Etymology

From Powhatan poughkone. Puccoon thus forms a doublet with poke (“pokeweed”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??ku?n/

Noun

puccoon (countable and uncountable, plural puccoons)

1. (countable, botany) Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, such as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum, Lithospermum hirtum and Lithospermum canescens.
2. (uncountable) The red pigment (dye) obtained from these plants.
   • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, quoted by Kupperman in 1988, page 61:

     their head and shoulders [were] painted red, with Oyle and Pocones mingled together, which Scarlet-like colour made an exceeding handsome shew [...].

Derived terms

• Canada puccoon (Sanguinaria canadensis)
• Carolina puccoon (Lithospermum caroliniense)
• fringed puccoon (Lithospermum incisum)
• golden puccoon (Lithospermum caroliniense)
• hairy puccoon (Lithospermum caroliniense)
• hoary puccoon (Lithospermum canescens)
• narrow-leaved puccoon (Lithospermum incisum)
• narrowleaf puccoon (Lithospermum incisum)
• red puccoon (Sanguinaria canadensis)

References

• puccoon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.