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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada;
[syn: cascara buckthorn, bearberry, bearwood, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rhamnus \Rham"nus\, n. [NL., from Gr. "ra`mnos a kind of prickly shrub; cf. L. rhamnos.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European Rhamnus catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cascara sagrada \Cas"ca*ra sa*gra"da\ (k[.a]s"k[.a]*r[.a] s[.a]*gr[aum]"d[.a]). [Sp.] Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative; -- called also cascara. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

chittamwood \chittamwood\ n. 1. a shrubby tree of the U. S. Pacific coast (Rhamnus purshianus or Rhamnus purshiana), whose bark is the cascara sagrada, used as a mild cathartic or laxative. Syn: cascara, cascara buckthorn, bearberry, bearwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus. [WordNet 1.5] 2. a deciduous tree of SE U.S. and Mexico. Syn: false buckthorn, chittimwood, shittimwood, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa. [WordNet 1.5] 3. a shrubby tree of southern U.S. (Cotinus obovatus) having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke; -- called also American smoke tree. Syn: American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus. [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Rhamnus purshianus n 1: shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada [syn: cascara buckthorn, bearberry, bearwood, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus]