pocan

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See also: pocán

English

ripe pocan berries

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Powhatan pocan^[1] / poughkone.^[2] Pocan thus forms a doublet with puccoon.

Noun

pocan (uncountable)

(botany) The poke, Phytolacca americana (formerly Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.).

References

^ Charles L. Cutler, O Brave New Words!: Native American Loanwords in Current English →ISBN, 2000)
^ Oxford Dictionary of English →ISBN

“pocan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

Capon, Ponca, capno-, capon

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