Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Lithospermum"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Lithospermum
n : annual or perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants;
cosmopolitan except Australia [syn: {Lithospermum}, {genus
Lithospermum}]
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