cascara

Questions about cascara

What does cascara mean?

cascara means "dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative".

How many syllables are in cascara?

cascara has 3 syllables and divides as ca-sca-ra under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cascara?

Close synonyms include cascara sagrada, chittam bark, chittem bark. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cascara a common word?

cascara is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.