Pocan

Origin

From Powhatan pocan

Charles L. Cutler, O Brave New Words!: Native American Loanwords in Current English (ISBN 0806132469, 2000)

poughkone.

Oxford Dictionary of English (ISBN 0199571120)

Pocan thus forms a doublet with puccoon.

Full definition of pocan

Noun

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