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countable and uncountable, plural puccoons
(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. quotations examples
The puccoon dye was used as a sort of body rouge; it rubbed off on English linen quite easily, as Byrd's men discovered.
2002, Stephen G Ausband, Byrd's line, page 62
(uncountable) The red pigment (dye) obtained from these plants. quotations examples
their head and shoulders [were] painted red, with Oyle and Pocones mingled together, which Scarlet-like colour made an exceeding handsome shew [...].
1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, quoted by Kupperman in 1988, page 61