pocan

See also: pocán

English
ripe pocan berries

Etymology

From Powhatan pocan[1] / poughkone.[2] Pocan thus forms a doublet with puccoon.

Noun

pocan (uncountable)

  1. (botany) The poke, Phytolacca americana (formerly Phytolacca decandra).

References
  1. Charles L. Cutler, O Brave New Words!: Native American Loanwords in Current English →ISBN, 2000)
  2. Oxford Dictionary of English →ISBN
  • pocan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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