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- Powhatan · borrowed frompoughkone
- English todaypuccoon
From Virginia Algonquian i.e. Powhatan poughkone. Related to poke, pocan.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, such as bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) and two species of Lithospermum, Lithospermum caroliniense and Lithospermum canescens. Full definition →
From Virginia Algonquian i.e. Powhatan poughkone. Related to poke, pocan.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.