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Webster 1913 Edition
Pocan
Po′can
,Noun.
(Bot.)
The poke (
Phytolacca decandra
); – called also pocan bush
. Definition 2024
pocan
pocan
See also: pocán
English
ripe pocan berries
Noun
pocan (uncountable)
- (botany) The poke, Phytolacca americana (formerly Phytolacca decandra).
References
- ↑ Charles L. Cutler, O Brave New Words!: Native American Loanwords in Current English (ISBN 0806132469, 2000)
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of English (ISBN 0199571120)
- pocan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913