Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for ROU-COU
ROU-COU, n. [roo'coo; originally written Urucu.]
The dried pulp which invests the seeds within the seed-vessel of Bixa orellana, a shrub eight or ten feet high, growing in South America. A substance used in dyeing; the same as anotta.
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