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: ca-sca-ra. The stress falls on "ca".

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.