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noun perennial plant of eastern North America having hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment
noun 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 stim
originFrom Virginia Algonquian i.e. Powhatan poughkone. Related to poke, pocan.
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